A computer expert and his friends manage to disable a department store's security system so they can rob it, but once inside they find themselves stalked by a killer.
A tale that centres on the bittersweet first and last loves of Roie, who becomes a woman too quickly living among the tenement houses, razor gangs, brothels and sly-grog shops of inner Surry Hills.
The Darcy family struggles to overcome hardships following the tragic death of eldest daughter Roie, as her widowed husband drowns his sorrows and younger sister Dolour tries to keep the family together in 1950s Sydney.
