What chance have you got when your dad's a cop, your mum's a frighteningly understanding parent, your brother wets the bed, your best friend's a heavy metal devotee and then you fall in love at 12 and three quarters years old? It can only mean trouble, worry, mega-embarrassment and some wild, wild times. Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, and his family have just moved to the most remote town on earth, Angelus. For Lockie this is a TOTAL LIFE DISASTER: no friends, new school and a house that is truly in danger of disappearing into a swamp... but then Lockie spots the one thing that makes it all okay, this weird little town has the best surf he has ever seen.
Through the eyes of Lockie Leonard we view the truly mixed-up, yet very normal life of Lockie, his family and friends.

Running Time: 30 mins

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Now he's popular, Lockie's getting a big head. And a short fuse. When the dancing challenged Lockie realises he's expected to bust some moves at the upcoming Blue Light Disco, he takes his insecurities out on Phillip, who's been busy engineering a night to remember for he and Lisa. On the night, it's not only nerves that send Lockie's belly into a tangle, which causes him more than a little attention on the dance-floor. Phillip learns a few hard truths, forcing Lockie to realise how important his brother really is to him.

Lockie is invited to go water skiing with Vicki and her parents, and assures Vicki he's a good skier. In reality, he's never skied before. Ever. However, since this is a chance to spend more time with Vicki and impress her parents, Lockie feels he has little choice but to pretend. Besides, skiing's just like surfing, right? How hard can it be? At the river, Lockie meets Vicki's friends who now go to boarding school in the city, discovering a side of Vicki he didn't know existed. Maybe Lockie doesn't know Vicki as well as he though he did.

After a misunderstanding with Vicki, Lockie is thrust into a looming altercation with an older bogan. Mum also faces her fears when Mrs Eggleston asks her to pose for a sculpture. In the nude. Waking up with a temperature the day of his scheduled fight, Lockie has to decide whether to use his sickness as an excuse not to show up and face public ridicule, or face his fears and go ahead with it.

Lockie is stressed out . Out the three hundred and sixty five days in the year, why did Vicki and Phillip have to be born on the exact same day? Sometimes things just happen that are out of your control. Like Mum's battle with her new bread-maker. Or a misunderstanding that sees Lockie arrive inappropriately dressed for Vicki's birthday party. How will Lockie get out of this one without ruining Vicki's big day?