Rosehaven is a small (fictional) town in Tasmania, it is proper country, beyond the reach of tree changers. Daniel is moving home to take over the family real-estate business while his domineering and frankly terrifying mother is incapacitated. Daniel's best friend and perpetual teenager, Emma, arrives at Daniel's door, hiding out from a marriage that didn't last the honeymoon. Daniel offers Emma a job and together they try and turn around a failing business coping with unreasonable landlords, stubborn tenants, sullen staff and never ending (sometimes quite intrusive) invitations to join the local mixed netball team.