Stretching from Federation Australia to the trenches of WW1, 'At the Going Down of the Sun' follows two men, born to different women who became friends on a convict ship transporting them to Botany Bay. Grace Beale's son appears to be a pillar of the community but privately struggles with his inner demons. Whilst searching for the portrait of his mother painted by an artist decades before, his redemption is played out in the dirt and blood of France during the last stages of the war.