The Hummel family has lorded over their corner of rural South Australia for generations. Their grand homestead - Malaya - is enclosed in a ring of pines and vast sheep paddocks. But the Hummel men keep dying, falling from the same windmill every five years... and Balthasar is the last in the line. Balthasar has only a matter of months before the next anniversary. To survive, he needs to decipher the past and he thinks he can: Balthasar...