Welcome to central Queensland and Keister, the town that first existed thanks to cattle and sheep, and boomed in the 21st century thanks to coal; tonnes and tonnes of coal in the Galilee Basin. There were always rich pickings on the side for the Stevensons, now represented by brothers Lachlan, the local MP, and Duncan, the Shire Mayor. Keister is on the way to nowhere and yet the starting point for the way back to everywhere. Duncan secretly uses the family transport business to distribute goods that don't appear on the manifests of his trucks, and his wife gets a dog. In the meantime the Shire Clerk tries to keep control. When the dog turns nasty and a truck crashes, in the middle of events is Council's Local Laws Officer Simon Cadaster, the Dog Catcher from Keister North.