Cold Light

It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry and her now-husband Ambrose Westwood are now back: from one of the oldest cities of the world to the world's newest city, she moved from trying to make a world capital in Geneva, to a dusty town trying to become a national capital. Edith has ambitions to be Australia's first female Ambassador and is seeking a position in Canberra with the Department of External Affairs. Finding her ambitions thwarted in this area, Edith vigorously involves herself in the building of the new centre of civilization. Frederick - Edith's brother who disappeared from her life before she left Australia - reacquaints himself with her and introduces Edith to the Australian Communist Party, of which he is a leader. Frederick's relationship to Edith, in the time of the Communist Party Dissolution Act, is a threat to Ambrose's career with the High Commission - or does it provide him with an opportunity to spy?