Surviving the Seventies

Flared skirts beehive hairdos stay-at-home mums ... Australia in the fifties and sixties was comfortably conservative. Then along came the seventies ...This is the story of how one young Australian navigates her way through a decade of upheaval.Its 1971 past midnight on a cold Sydney winters night and Pamela finds herself alone in the darkness on the side of a deserted highway with no money and no idea where she is. Shes just escaped an abusive relationship and so begins her life as a single parent living in communal houses racing across the city between child-care and work and home saving for her dream of travelling the world.Drug-dabbling along the Hippie Highway in Asia battling homelessness in London living in France and Greece in a rusty old Kombi van Pamela hones her survival skills. And all the while surpassing Bridget Jones in her selection of unsuitable men.