A sixteen-year-old teenage girl (
Nadine Garner) is forced to care for her family, when her mother (
Sue Jones) finds out she is dying of
Hodgkin’s disease. The family consists of her father (
Bill Hunter) a reformed alcoholic and recently born-again Christian, her
heroin-dabbling closet gay older brother (Craig Morrison), and two trying younger siblings (
Bradley Kilpatrick and Kymara Stowers) all packed into a rented flat in the
Melbourne bayside suburb of
St Kilda. She also has to deal with her pregnant Greek best friend (
Mary Coustas), her yearnings for her brother’s lover (
Juno Roxas) and her gay former schoolteacher plus his lover. ==Cast==