How did surfing, which prizes a laidback coastal lifestyle of philosophical oneness with the ocean, become so commercialised that 15-year-olds are already fretting about the trajectories of their professional careers?
Exasperated with her ungovernable daughter, Summer’s Aussie photographer mum Margot (Kate Beahan) has sent Summer to stay in Margot’s hometown with Margot’s childhood friends Abby and Thommo Gibson (Adrienne Pickering and Dustin Clare). There she meets the Gibsons’ teenage son Ari (Kai Lewins), a star grommet who’s still recovering, physically and mentally, from a near-fatal surfing accident a year earlier.