Stringybark is a period drama depicting the true story of a party of mounted police in colonial Victoria tasked with the arrest and apprehension of the notorious Ned Kelly. It is 1878, and Sergeant Michael Kennedy, an experienced Victorian Mounted Police Officer in Mansfield, Victoria, receives a cable from his superiors tasking him with leading a party of police into the Wombat Ranges, to arrest criminal brothers Ned and Daniel Kelly and any known accomplices.
—Ben Head