Irene Bobs loves to drive fast. Together with her husband, a top car dealer in south-east Australia, she decides to take part in the Redex Challenge, a brutal car race across the continent on roads that almost no one will travel on. The team's navigator will be the failed teacher Willie, an amateur cartographer who knows how to lead the team to victory. The race in space overlaps with the race in time: the ancient continent will open the way to the past. Genocide, overt racism, blatant injustices - the history of each country keeps its dark secrets. And it only seems to us that they are far from home.