The mother (Celine O’Leary) sits watching her daughter’s angry drawing. She has come to tell her that her father is moving out.

The mother (Celine O’Leary) loses patience with her daughter’s silence, declaring that she won’t live in a pigsty any longer.

The girl (Chloe Ferguson) listens as her parents argue in the next room. Kate, a babysitter (Kate Greetham), arrives as the parents are about to go to counselling.

In a flashback, Doris (Ruth Cracknell) plots the marriage of her daughter Felicity (Kerry Walker) to a rising young Canberra diplomat, John (John Derum).

Felicity’s rebellion is now in full swing. She has taken to wearing leathers and breaking into other people’s houses.