spoiler alert disjoint and confuse arson drama that have to do with a sinister plan to burn down a major vacation resort before new year day . be insure for ten million dollar the man behind valley view estate in the blue mountains in australia julian fane and guy doleman and be determine to bring his own project down in flame in order to collect . this have to happen by january 1 and two week hence and before the insurance policy on the project run out . with his mind totally on his work builder and architect howard anderson and tom skerritt and have no idea that his bos and julian fane and be plan to burn down the resort he building and possibly set him up a the fall guy . anderson get a bit suspicious when insurance investigator sophie mccann and wendy hughes and informs him on some very fishy going on between fane and the insurance company proud alliance . it turn out that proud allience be actually own and or 60 % of it and by fane himself . this explain whey fane be have all these arson fire happen in order to collect the ten million dollar of insurance which be at least twice as much a the entire valley view estates be worth . we later have sophie mccann murder and in a faked swimming accident and to keep her from find out whats happen with the suspicious fry around and in valley view estate . it when lloyd of london and who underwrite proud alliance and insurance investigator george engles and james mason and show up that fane take a powder leave his ace arsonist on his own and out of control to blow fane entire plan . meanwhile anderson have get wise to both fane and engles who unlike fane want the valley view estates to go under for reason which be never make quite clear and just watch the last few second of the film to realize that and by it writer and director . the arsonist be expose a he about to do in his girlfriend with anderson come to her rescue . we then have this wild chase scene with the arsonist get lose in the valley view construction site only to have it set on fire and with the help of howard anderson and where he end up burn to a crisp by the time the fire department come to hose him down . the sudden and unexplained end never make clear to just what happen to the big cheese in this whole scheme of thing the sinister and evil mind julian fane . it a if fane get away scot free and only his unstable and deranged henchman and the arsonist and who be only the instrument of fane crime end up a the only person who pay from them .