Seven children wander the streets in an urban odyssey over one day and night. But not all will find their way home. Katrina and Trisha are two street-smart girls, with sharp tongues and attitude. When they wag school and are caught shoplifting, the cops make sure they leave knowing they ve got nothing, that they re worth nothing. Having recently fled his mother s cloying love, Roo is now living on the street. But when he finds himself shooting a porn film he realises he s not so tough and just wants to go home. Unfairly accused of stealing his mother s money, Daniel decides he may as well stage a real theft. But the outcome of his actions is not the one he expects. Brother and sister, Orton and Stacey, must flee the mother they love in order to survive. And James is the most lost of all; a young Aboriginal man with no place in the white or black world.