Watershed

Belinda, who is at an inner-city high school, feels bitter and helpless when her parents decide to move the family to a housing estate in the mountains, into a house that has been specially designed to meet the needs of her disabled brother.

For her best friend, Leni, the future is also uncertain. Without Belinda, Leni is friendless and humiliated by her restrictive mother.

Meanwhile, in the bush beyond the estate, Belinda comes across Lance, a boy with a secret, who has set up a campsite where he spends most of his days. When Leni runs away and turns up at Belinda's house, starving after a lonely night in the bush, Belinda can think of only one solution to Leni's problem: Lance's campsite in the bush.

Up on the ridge, the police presence increases over the next few days as clues to Leni's whereabouts are uncovered. Lance tries to juggle Leni's needs with his own needs and those of his troubled family, but when the creek floods and Leni is injured, Lance and Belinda learn some lessons about friendship, selfishness, truth and deception, courage and fear.