After complaining to her mother (Bobbie Hunt) about not being able to borrow money to go out for a night with the girls, Grace (Dorothy Dickson) sulks in her room.

A family sits around the breakfast table after son Ted has finished his night shift at the munitions factory.

A man is ready to leave for his night shift at the munitions factory when his young daughter, Topsy, runs up to him.

In this dramatised sequence, a mining family hears on the wireless that Singapore has fallen to the Japanese.

Shipbuilders work at the Whyalla shipyards for Australia’s war effort. A woman shakes out a broom over a veranda with the ship visible to the left. Men walk through the streets to or from work.