Jamie Carr is a young man growing up in Bundaberg, Northern Queensland during the closing years of World War I. Jamie, who is in his final year of high school, was brought up by his grandmother. Grandma Carr is known and loved by all in the town, and does her best to help Jamie through the emotional turmoil of adolescence and a society struggling under old traditions and beliefs in a new country.

• Pisces Productions
• Geraldine Fitzgerald
• Robert Helpmann
• Christopher Pate
• Ben Gabriel
• Gerard Kennedy
• Gloria Dawn
• Carol Burns
• Barry Pierce