The year is 1927; a decade after the Great War and a new war is brewing in Sydney.

 

Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine have conquered the underworld, but when Norman Bruhn makes a bid to overturn the backstreets of Razorhurst, a war of deceit and violence erupts.

 

Amid the chaos stands Lillian Armfield, Australia’s first woman detective who forms a strong bond with sex worker Nellie Cameron and ultimately must face the sly grog queen Kate Leigh to earn her place on the force and change the face of women in the police forever.