[2] The coming-of-age film follows an American model (Ryan) who travels to an Australian beach town to reconnect with her family and her aspirations.
Cora arrives into the Australian beach town and is welcomed in by the laid back community, and soon strikes up a friendship with the bubbly Chicka.
The longer she stays with Margot, Cora realizes that her aunt has unresolved grief over the drowning of her husband, Caleb.
Sofia has negotiated a lucrative deal for Cora to be the face of a new season campaign for a New York fashion house.
Cora chooses to miss her flight when the prop plane refuses to carry her beloved sewing machine.
[4][5] Debby Ryan was cast as the central character Cora, after previously starring on the Disney Channel series Jessie (2011–15).