Scandalised by a provocative series of paintings in the early 1930s by the controversial Australian artist Norman Lindsay, the Anglican Church sends a young clergyman, Anthony Campion, and his wife Estella, who have just arrived from England, to take up a new parish in the countryside west of Sydney. Stopping en route at Lindsay's house in the Blue Mountains, Campion tries to persuade him to withdraw an etching from a coming international exhibition. Three young models, Sheela, Prue and Giddy, a