A beautiful girl is found lying on the beach. Lost and alone, she doesn't appear to be able to speak or to understand what is being said to her. Flynn Saunders examined her medically, and finds there is nothing physically wrong with her, but there is a possibility that she is traumitised. How did she get there? Who is she and why is she in Summer Bay?

The only person she gives any response to is Irene - and so Irene takes her into the Beach House. But even simple everyday things seem to confuse her. Only through gentleness and time does Irene break through. In the meantime, when 'Jane Doe', as she is known, first speaks - it is in pig latin which is a language unknown to the residents of summer bay.

When the truth is discovered, it's revealed that 'Jane' has been brought up by survivalists who taught her to distrust everything, and dropped out of society to live in a fortress preparing for Y2K. When they died through their own attempts to arm their camp, 'Jane' was traumatised, and lived only through instinct, trying to make her way back to who knows where.

Despite the fact that for some time in her life 'Jane' had a normal childhood, all she knows now is the bush - the rocks, the earth... she feels safe there. People and the everyday goings-on of normal society are foreign to her, and she reacts with fright when she meets new people.

She has the physical sophistication of a 15 year old, but the mental sophistication of a girl who's 3. Her journey to a normal life with be a rocky one.

And secrets will continue to come to the surface in 'Jane's' life. We learn that her real name is Natasha Andrews - Tasha for short, and then she finds her real mother and father - Angie Russel and Ian Osborne.  She meets her father and decides she would rather stay in Summer Bay with Robbie, Irene and her aunt Josie.