- An American criminal on the run from the Chicago mob loses all of his money and is forced to hide out in an Australian beach town, posing as their new reverend and becoming dangerously involved with the locals.
- Paulo, a Chicago criminal, accidentally kills the son of a violent Chicago mob family during a standoff. He grabs a bag containing $1.6m and runs for his life, boarding a plane at O'Hare airport bound for the Gold Coast, Australia. He sits next to Mackenzie, a priest posted to the remote parish of Clump in far north Queensland. Mackenzie is distraught that his wife has left him, and they end up drinking at the same hotel bar after arrival. Paulo passes out and Mackenzie steals the bag of cash, and lives it up on the Gold Coast. Paulo, realizing his life is in danger from the dangerous criminals in Chicago, heads north to Clump in a church-owned hearse with no A/C to assume Mackenzie's identity. He is arrested on arrival for dangerous driving without a license (he knocks over the town's only electricity connection) by Piper, the local and only police officer. Despite the hot, remote location with poor cell phone service, almost no internet, and a small town of eccentrics, he needs to stay and hide out. In his small church and manse next door, he finds Mackenzie's belongings that have been sent ahead. But staying in the house is a 16 year old girl, Daisy, who had been in trouble with the law for stealing painkillers, but who he lets stay. The series, focused on Clump and the Gold Coast, then revolves around the relationship between Paulo posing as a priest and keeping off the radar in case the Chicago mob locate him, Mackenzie the hapless priest living it up with stolen money, Daisy (who has hidden talents), Piper (who is obsessive in her police work to the point of compromising her relationship), and two bungling hoodlums who are supposed to be managing a trade in illegal rough-cut tobacco that somehow ends up at the church. The remote setting in northern Queensland, actually the town of Mission Beach, adds a stunning backdrop of long beaches, tropical rain-forest, sugar cane fields, shrimp farms and a beach bar.
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