Western Australia, 1931. An inhumane law allows children to be taken from Aboriginal tribes and sent thousands of kilometers away to special institutions, where they are to be turned into obedient servants for white masters. Sisters Molly, Daisy, and their cousin Grace escape from a guarded camp. The authorities pursue the girls. The sisters must travel across Australia along an endless fence that protects settlements from wild rabbits.

The director set his first English-language film in a run-down motel in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Jasmine Münchgstettner, an ordinary German housewife, had a falling out with her husband, who left her alone in the desert. After wandering around for a while under the scorching sun, she arrives at a dusty motel run by Brenda, a sharp-tongued, tough woman who treats her new client like an alien.

After a while, however, these two very different women become best friends and together turn the motel into the best establishment west of Las Vegas. Jasmine simply attracts all visitors, especially Rudy Cox, a desperate romantic who desperately wants to paint her portrait.