A slice of American Beauty in an affluent Australian suburb.
Alice and Harry Haskins have moved to Sunnyside, an affluent Australian beachside suburb, to finally embrace the encumbrances of middle age: family, responsibility, stability, debt.
Surrounded by big houses and swimming pools, cocktail parties and tennis tournaments, they coat their inner worlds in the saccharine pleasures of the suburbs. But when Alice and Harry's closest friends crash on the rocks of infidelity, the shock-waves reverberate through the neighbourhood. Alice and Harry face the big questions: how relationships camouflage the fault-lines of character, the vulnerabilities of families in the wake of emotional anarchy and the ever perplexing question of which is more compelling: passion or love?
