Five-year old Talia leaves her native Spain to immigrate to Australia, meeting her father for the first time and beginning a new life amidst the tall cane of subtropical North Queensland. The family eventually settles on the estate of fellow Spaniards, the Candela family, and for the next two decades Talia lives alongside them, in the surroundings of their grand home, the Castillo Candela. They share more than twenty years of sickness and happiness, ravaging storms and lush and breathtaking natural beauty, war and love, abandonment and ruin. Even though Talia must ultimately leave the castle, she is forever changed. Her heart will always beat to the rhythm of Mena Creek and a love she can never forget.