Season 1 of New Gold Mountain continues the story and main plot of the series, bringing together key events and character development across the season.
In the Bendigo Goldfields in 1855, the charismatic headman of the Chinese mining camp suddenly finds himself struggling to maintain the fragile harmony between Chinese and European diggers and authorities when a murdered European woman is discovered to have links with the Chinese community.
Keywords: 1850s , 19th-century , australian-western , gold-mine , murder , racial-tension