Meet Gary Black: average football player, budding wordsmith and reluctant hero. Gary's life is turned upside down when he (accidentally) helps his local football team win the premiership; falls in love with a beautiful young girl, and becomes entangled in a terrible conflict with the people of his coastal town. Australian Rules is a story of the courage of one young man in a town ready to explode. Before it does, Gary Black is going to have to change some of the rules.