SACRED SEVENTH IBD

Sinopse

What if your worst decision became someone else?s second chance?Brisbane, 1992. Engineer Michael Whelan is devastated by one problem he can?t fix: he?s ?the issue?, according to the IVF doctors. An experimental surgery in San Diego might give him and his wife, Daniela, a child, but the cost is out of their reach.Widowed TAB owner Hazel Andrews is drowning in her late husband?s debts and his mate Craig?s creative accounting. All she really owns is a tired suburban betting shop and twenty thousand dollars in cash hidden off the books, while the bank closes in.On an ordinary weekday, Michael walks into Hazel?s TAB with a shotgun. Inside, he confronts Hazel, Charlie, a corporate lawyer avoiding his own mess, Angus, an ex-con who knows too much about fixing horse races, and Claire, an exhausted, struck-off doctor looking for a few minutes? reprieve from the bottle.A tip on a country race that?s not ?running straight? offers them a way out. The five of them make a pact to back one horse in the seventh at Alice Springs - and never speak of it again.Years later, the fallout ripples through marriages, jail-time, hospital wards and racetracks. Eventually, they all must decide what matters more: the stories they?ve told themselves to live with what happened, or the truth about the dirty money that could change everything.