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.
Geraldine Fitzgerald
as Grandma Carr
Robert Helpmann
as Professor
Christopher Pate
as Jamie Carr
Ben Gabriel
as Wilkenshaw
Gerard Kennedy
as Preacher Jones
Gloria Dawn
as Pearl
Carol Burns
as Maudie Plover
Barry Pierce
as Angus McDonald
Diane Craig
as Miss Pringle
Maggie Millar
as Laura Montague
Gerry Duggan
as Scanlon
Terry McDermott
as Somers
