Based on the memoirs of Raimond Gaita, Romulus, My Father follows Gaita's story as he fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake them.

The story tells about his growing up with his father amid the stony paddocks and flowing grasses of country Australia. Romulus, My Father is about how a compassionate and honest man taught his son the meaning of living a decent life. It is about passion, betrayal and madness, about friendship and the joy and dignity of work, about character and fate, affliction and spirituality.