In 1988, the body of Scott Johnson, a 27-year-old gay American doctoral student, was found sprawled below a cliff on a rugged beach in Sydney, Australia.

In 1988, the body of Scott Johnson, a 27-year-old gay, American doctoral student, was found sprawled below a cliff on a rugged beach in Sydney, Australia. Since then, his older brother Steve has been doggedly searching for answers to how Scott died. He could never have imagined the tinderbox he would crack open, a wave of anti-gay violence and the murders of dozens of gay men as Australia's citizens grapple with their country's history of endemic corruption and senseless homophobia.