We meet political adviser Francis McGuire on the last sitting week before the federal election. Inside the pressure cooker of daily politics, she’s carrying responsibility for the launch of the opposition’s centrepiece health policy, her boss’s legacy. Everything is in place until the opposition’s campaign machine kicks in to action.

When the policy launch unravels in ways no one anticipates, the party hierarchy moves quickly to contain the damage and Francis just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. She’s their scapegoat - cast out by her own, publicly shamed and hounded by the press.

With her reputation in ruins, Francis retreats to a small south-coast town in Western Australia she swore she’d never revisit after her father’s fatal car accident when she was a teenager. But instead of the anonymity she’s desperate for, she’s swept up in something much more sinister than the scandal she escaped ...

Questions over the father’s death. Corruption at the highest levels. Infiltration of organised crime into our political systems. A ruthless contest for power and control. And a murder that will unravel democracy as we know it.

As Francis begins to peel back the past, will she expose the secrets the powerful will kill to protect, or will the truth remain Unspoken?