Charlie is a kangaroo obsessed 12-year-old girl, who has lost her sense of place in the world after the death of her father and relocating to the remote town of Silver Gum with her mother. Meanwhile in Sydney, Chris Masterman gets fired from his job as a weather presenter and is exiled from his world of fame and TV. He flees the big city for a break but as luck would have it, finds himself stranded in the outback and out of his comfort-zone.