Carol (Nicole Kidman) is a top runner, coached by her father day and night. Then she sees Angie, the punk new girl, dancing magnificently and alone. The two become friends and Carol begins to rebel, but the all-important race is coming up.
Ben's father gives him "The Facts of Life" but Ben hits him with much tougher questions than birds-and-bees stuff. Why are some people starving? Dad can't answer. Ben starts a crusade to make the world right. And reaps the consequences.
10 year old Gary Doyle has a photographic memory. He denies to be a teacher's pet. Still he gets beaten up every day. This changes as he participate a quiz on the radio.
Every garbage night, Kev goes out to paint tarflowers on fences and walls. Kev reckons they will die if he doesn't. Sour, old Mrs. Pearl thinks Kev is just a vandal.