In The Treasure Seekers, Annie Carraway has a wealthy uncle in England who is invited to set up his law practice in Sydney. His wife encourages Annie's poor widowed mother to go along and pioneer, and out of fear and guilt she concedes to move their family to Australia. But the years that follow are very difficult, with Annie's mother finally passing away and leaving the children penniless. They are taken into the uncle's home, but because there is...