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Dungatar is a small town like any other in the Victorian wheatlands - except that the women dress like Paris models. This is the story of exotic Tilly, a talented and beautiful misfit, who returns from Europe to Dungatar to nurse her mad old mother. Her reappearance after twenty years is met with suspicion and malice from the eccentric locals until they discover her startling dressmaking skills. Among the most appreciative is the policeman, an enthusiastic seamstress himself. Gradually she wins over the town with her fabulous creations.