At 13, she runs away from a home for wayward girls. At 16, she admits herself to a psychiatric hospital. At 18, she escapes Cambodia as it falls to the Khmer Rouge. At 19, she is a prostitute in Japan and at 21, she threw unionism into chaos making headlines around Australia.
So continues Barbara Biggs's inside account of the dark side of the permissive seventies. It is the second part of an extraordinary family story told with black humor and unflinching honesty.