Kevin Cousins is a young Koori boy from the Shoalhaven who finds himself in an alien world when his Gran takes ill and is hospitalised there. His life seems to be taking on some kind of structure when he and his sister join the Surf Club and earn their Bronze Medallions so that they can get a surfboard. Then their Gran dies and their mother suffers a total physical collapse. Things will get a lot worse before they get better. At least he and his baby...