Fifteen-year-old Jaxie Clacton turns into the driveway of his home in a tiny rural town in Western Australia. His beloved mother recently died of cancer. His cruel, drunkard father, the town butcher, can no longer torture his wife, so he beats his son. And now Jaxie is looking at his father’s legs sticking out from under the pickup truck. The car fell off the jack - the father was dead. But no one in the city will believe in an accident, so Jaxie has only one thing to do - run. All he carries is a rifle and a water bottle. All he wants is peace and freedom. A path awaits him through barren salt marshes, abandoned gold mines, pain, hopelessness and loneliness. A journey only a dreamer - or a fugitive - would undertake... The Shepherd's Cabin is a gripping story of unlikely friendship and longing, both brutal and lyrical.