debbie vickers ( nell schofield ) and sue knight ( jad capelja ) want to become one of the cool girl in their high school . uncool and ugly girl have two option and be a mole or a prude . debbie and sue imitate them by use their cheating practice in an exam . two of the cool boy and garry ( goeff rhoe ) and danny ( tony hughes ) ask them for their answer and they all get bust . after a bawl out from the headmaster ( bud tingwell ) the cool girl meet them outside in the playground and confront them about whether they dobbed on them all . a debbie and sue hadn not the cool girl invite them to the dunnies for a smoke . they then start to hang with them on weekend at the beach and watch all the boys surf . sue end up go out with danny and debbie with garry . a lot of usual teenage action take place include sex and drug and rock and roll . garry have an eventual overdose of heroin which make debbie face the inequality of life and she decide to learn to surf instead of just watch the boy . they be not happy but watch her and call name and and eventually debbie master the board . a cool early 80 aussie film .