In their inner-city home in Swift Street Melbourne, street-smart and spiritually Afro-Punk Elsie, 21, has been supporting her charming but inadequate father Robert ever since her mother walked out on them five years ago. As well as working at Loscoe’s Electronics, Elsie applies her wit and creativity to hustling anything and everything except drugs to make ends meet, while hopelessly optimistic Robert tries his hand – without much success - at sketchy get-rich-quick schemes.  

  

Tension comes to a head when Elsie discovers Robert is twenty-six thousand dollars in debt to an unhinged local crime boss known only as The Mechanic, who wants the money back in ten days. After an emotional and tense confrontation Elsie commits to helping her father raise the money. Learning to work together as a team is bumpy, but as Robert gets his second wind as a hustler – and potentially as a father – Elsie discovers what she is truly capable of. 

  

Skating through Melbourne, father and daughter experience hectic scrapes and near-misses, all the while fumbling through their dysfunctional relationship. Elsie is also juggling her relationship with high school sweetheart Tatenda, a growing attraction to neighbourhood bad girl Aisha, and facing her mother Moreblessing for the first time in years. She confides in her new friend Tom who just started working at Loscoe’s, never imagining that he has been assigned to collect Robert’s debt for The Mechanic. 

 

With the repayment deadline looming, Elsie and Robert carry out a series of increasingly serious crimes, pushing Elsie beyond the rules she has survived by all these years, and culminating in her being kidnapped. Elsie’s ride as Robert’s partner in crime sparks hope, reconciliation, and an opportunity for Elsie to be independent.  

 

The question is, will helping Robert bring about Elsie’s downfall or will they find a way to save each other?