It's Christmas in 1967 and time to re-enact the rituals of the summer holiday. Three Australian families set out separately but are driven together by a storm. At times funny and yet painfully truthful, Away explores the comedy and tragedy of their lives.

In blazing heat, a stolen Mini hurtles towards Sydney. Inside, three unstable teenagers from the country—Snake, Aspro and Dean—plan a future that will begin when they collect Aspro's accident compo from the Department. Sparks fly. Tensions escalate. Twilight approaches…

The megalomaniac President Lopez has married Madame Lynch, a Parisian courtesan. His ignorance and her egotism together bring ruin on the country and themselves.

Williamson's famous play about the uses and abuses of managerial power, which in 1976 foreshadowed the great changes that Australian football has since endured, proves even more prescient since the rise and fall of Super League. 

A poignant drama of Jeanne, a French war-bride and her shell-shocked husband battling the hardship and prejudices of an isolated farming community.

It's election night 1969. Don and Kath hope that there will be a change of government, and give a party to watch the results. As the tide turns against Labor, the good cheer palls and the faded ideals and disappointed hopes of the characters begin to show.

A young policeman's first day on duty becomes a violent and highly charged initiation into law enforcement.