It was the gun dream Noel was dreaming. He had it more and more as time went on .... She was Evie, a girl scratching on the door with her fingernail. Too scared to go out. Too scared to go and see. Stuck in the dark... Not far away there were suddenly bullet bangs. Noel lives with his despotic grandmother in a dilapidated terrace house in Sydney. When Evie and her family move in next door, a nightmare from the past begins to play itself out in the present. And the consequences may prove even more deadly this time. The House That Was Eureka not only reminds us that the past is a part of who we are, but it also brings to life the history of Depression-era Australia.