Bess struggles to tell Margaret and Julie that she's spending Christmas in New York; Wayne and Kayne try to make their Christmas-lights display the best in the street.
Follow the stories of two families living at opposite ends of the freeway. Bess Denyar is a doctor with a posh mother, Margaret, an architect husband, Danny Bright, and twin 13-year-olds at a private school, Oscar and Edwina. When Bess finds out that she is adopted, she is stunned, but even more so when she meets her birth parents, Wayne and Julie Wheeler. She also discovers that she has three siblings: Amber, Kayne and Brianna. The bogan Wheelers head up a drag racing team in the outer suburbs and are thrilled to discover the daughter they thought they had lost.
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Bess struggles to tell Margaret and Julie that she's spending Christmas in New York; Wayne and Kayne try to make their Christmas-lights display the best in the street.
Amber applies for a promotion at the bank, which requires a good word from Margaret. Bess is tiring of medical-related visits from the Wheelers.
After a TV news story about the Wheelers paints Julie as an old woman who is past her use by date, Julie decides she won't race anymore and, reasoning that she's the only driver, sells the dragster to help the family get out of debt. The Wheelers are furious with Julie for being so selfish. Julie, furious at them for not understanding, goes to stay with Bess to teach them a lesson. When Margaret discovers Julie swanning around at the Brights, she realises the only way to get her out of there is to make the rest of the Wheelers bring Julie home.
Middle-class woman, Bess Denyar, discovers she's adopted. She's shocked to find her birth parents head up a drag racing team in the outer suburbs.
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