Set in suburban Australia, backgrounded by petty neighbourhood antagoIt's the summer of 1987 and Mira is beginning her first year at uni.<br/>No more school. No more unnatural politeness. No more apologising for being different.<br/>She's got a radical new haircut, and an all - black wardrobe - she should be having the time of her life.<br/>But it's hard to get excited about anything when you're being smothered by a crazy Italian family, enrolled in a course you're not interested in, and waiting to see if it's America or Russia that drops that first bomb.<br/>Even a new best friend and the magnetic boy with the eyeliner can't rid Mira of the feeling that something terrible is about to happen.<br/>And she's right. Her world is about to explode, but it's not the skies she should be checking.<br/>