A daughter and her father go to meet her Irish grandfather for the first time at their collective birthday. Family tension and family politics and family history mix with humour and Max Gilles.
For sixteen summers, Roo and Barney have spent their long layoff from the cane-cutting season down in Melbourne having a high old time with two Carlton barmaids. Each visit they bring them gifts of those dolls on sticks (found at the Show) But back for their seventeenth summer, it seems time has finally caught up with them.