"The Returning" is set in the exotic tropics of North Queensland, Australia and tells a story of Reincarnation, of Family, Love, Murder and Revenge. An old man dies at the precise moment that a baby is born, and a bond is forged between them which will last for eternity. Jacob Shaunessy is having vivid dreams of romantic interludes with a beautiful young woman. She is familiar to him and yet, he can't find her in his memories. He knows instinctively that the exotic locations of the dreams are in the northern tropics of Australia; however, he has never been to that part of the world. They lead him to a small town in Far North Queensland where he and his best mate Mick Dyson are drawn deeper into a dark mystery which reaches back almost 80 years, and will plunge them into the depths of revenge and violent death, as the past comes forward in a final attempt to end a deadly vendetta.