Episode 1

A high-stakes crime drama that explores the hopes and heartbreak felt by those forging a new life in a foreign land. Set in Melbourne's outer-west suburb of Sunshine, the story follows Jacob Garang. Jacob is a young, aspiring South Sudanese-Australian basketball player whose dreams of climbing his biblical namesake's ladder to heaven, the American National Basketball Association, hang in the balance when he's drawn into a criminal investigation. Police are hunting down the perpetrator of a violent assault, which has left a young teenage girl in a coma fighting for her life, and a group of young men fighting for their innocence.