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The year is 1956, and Constable Joseph Levitt, a young and inexperienced police officer, finds himself assigned to a single officer police station in the vast, unforgiving desert outback of Western Australia.At first, the attractive women of the town are unnerved by a nighttime prowler who has been stealthily stealing their underwear from the clotheslines, sending whispers of fear through the community.In his first two days, PC Levitt must endure the grueling initiation rites imposed on newcomers in rural areasrituals that push him to prove his mettle through a series of physical confrontations.As he adjusts to his new surroundings, sleeping in a cramped storeroom and showering in a dimly lit police jail cell, tragedy strikes. An Aboriginal man is found brutally speared to death in his own home.With the assistance of a skilled Yamatji Aboriginal tracker named Billy Billy, Levitt learns that the killer wore shoes crafted from feathers. These unique footwear items, donned by Aboriginal tribal assassins roaming Australia's arid interiors, are fashioned from feathers bound together with human blood and spinifex glue, rendering the killer virtually unrecognisable.As the body count risesanother victim, then another, and yet anotherall claimed by the elusive featherfooted killer, Levitt is drawn into a perplexing dilemma. Are these murders the result of a cultural killing assignment by a Wongi tribesman, or is he facing the relentless pursuit of a cunning serial killer? The tension mounts as Levitt seeks answers in the desolate landscape that surrounds him.