Friday crisscrosses Australia with her mother, hearing tales of how her female ancestors have all died of drowning on auspicious Saturdays. Her mother has a knack with weaving tales, and Friday Brown is caught in her web...until her mother is diagnosed with cancer. Friday watches her mother waste away to nothing, until she dies quietly in the night, her lungs filled with fluid.
Friday sets out on her own, heading into the city, looking for a father she never knew. Instead she finds a different family in a group of squatters lead by the fearless Arden. Friday doesn't feel comfortable in the city, but she wants to wrapped in a family once again and ignores the strange feeling she gets from Arden and the ragtag group.
But she is pushed past her comfort zone when Arden burns down the squat and moves the "family" to an abandoned down in the middle of the outback. She swears she will leave the group, but before she can, something horrible happens.