A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.
A garage mechanic out in the middle of the outback gets involved with the girl friend of a jewel smuggler who is on the run.
A US criminal profiler (of sorts) is sent over to Queensland to help catch a serial slayer, who leaves biblical scriptures behind at the scene of his crimes.
An unsophisticated peasant from a small Czech village must choose between his wife and a stylish English-woman who introduces him to the cultured life of Prague.