Lucky wakes up to find that Meg has taken off with the ute and the piano, leaving him all alone in the scorching Nullarbor heat. He contemplates giving up and going home, but a potentially poisonous snakebite causes him to have a vision of his mother, who urges him to find the piano and keep going.

After dropping Meg at her mother's house in Kalgoorlie, Lucky gets a phone call from Meg's father, worried sick about his daughter's whereabouts. Upon learning that Meg doesn't have a mother, Lucky frantically drives back to town to find her, but is intercepted by the police who arrest him for the theft of the horse-float.