Deals with the challenges of ethnic hatred while growing up on the streets of Western Australia. Italo-Australians Cam and Pepe organise street fights for money, we follow their further criminal bumblings.

Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war.