The Furnace is a Western set in the 1890s gold rush of Western Australia starring David Wenham (The Lord of The Rings, 300) , Jay Ryan (IT: Chapter 2) , Mahesh Jadu (The Witcher) and Baykali Ganambarr (The Nightingale). To escape a harsh existence and return home, a young Afghan cameleer partners with a mysterious bushman on the run with two 400oz Crown-marked gold bars. Together the unlikely pair must outwit a zealous police sergeant and his troopers in a race to reach a secret furnace where they can safely reset the bars to remove the mark of the Crown.