[2][3] It is written by Fiona Seres, Tony McNamara and Judi McCrossin, and directed by Jessica Hobbs, Matthew Saville and Stuart McDonald.

Nat Manning (Kat Stewart) returned to her home town of Melbourne after ten years in the United Kingdom on the minor celebrity circuit.

Ally (Justine Clarke) is the devoted wife of an aggressive and arrogant builder Vince (Ben Mendelsohn), mother of Romeo and Gigi (Lincoln Younes and Eva Lazarro), who is happy to have her sister Nat back.

Tim and his wife Christine (Catherine McClements) patched up their marriage and successfully fought for custody of Max (Blake Davis) and do not welcome her return to their lives.

A major property deal on a hospital site had been scuppered by Tim, and he had lost his friendship with Gabriel after the latter declared his love for Ally.

The friends, egged on mainly by Romeo, locate and visit his house (where he lived alone) over several nights, until they are found there by the police and heavily questioned and cautioned.

A scandal is not what parent Tim needs, as he becomes a prominent public figure as State Minister for Health (he displaces a predecessor and terminally ill friend Pat, who commits suicide).

The teenagers suffer less major setbacks in the second half of the series, which focuses on Max's growing relationship with his mother, Nat, the discovery of teen sex and young love, and how to deal with their parents whose lives are falling apart.

Tim makes a bid for the top job of Premier, but is sidelined and then kicked out of the party after a press conference where he is too honest about the actions of his colleagues.

When Max moves away to stay with his biological mother Nat (and her sister, Ally), Christine flirts with a parallel life at odds with all previous certainties.