Mila is 10 years old. She likes the beach, fluffy animals, and drawing. She lives with her father in the outskirts of Perth where she has lived all her life. But her life changes for ever when her father loses his job and is forced to take up work on the other side of the country in Brisbane. She must leave behind her friends and her home in order to make this ambitious journey with her father from Western Australia to Queensland. They have just under a week to get there and very little food or money to live on. This is a story about love and survival in the face of overwhelming odds.