When Marnie, Tina and Lee share a house in famous Bondi Beach they are young, driven, ambitious. Yet below the surface each has her own agenda.

Marnie, strong, confident and privileged, is escaping the stifling conservatism of her home town - and a father who will forever mark her relationships with men.

Tina, driven to overcome her impoverished background, promises herself a home on Sydney harbour by the time she’s 30 - no matter what she has to do to get it.

Lee dreams of showbiz success far from a suffocating life in the suburbs. When her ambitions are cut cruelly short, her daughter is meant to live them for her.

A quarter of a century later the three friends learn that dreams come with no guarantee and the city is a much more dangerous place.