The central character, Elaine Fleetwood, assumes a masculine role in an attempt to alleviate her family's financial troubles. She disguises herself as a boy and travels to Northern Tasmania to make her fortune on the osmiridium mining fields.
'This big budget production cost in excess of 8000 pounds and had lavish indoor sets as well as being shot on location in Tasmania. The film was not well received and both Louise Lovely and author Marie Bjelke-Peterson abandoned hopes of filming more novels for an Australian film industry producing wholesome family entertainment' (Source: National Film and Sound Archive).
