Darren is eight when his mother leaves him and ten when his foster carers beat him badly enough to land him in intensive care; by his teens he is living on the streets and using drugs. He ends up at OASIS, a youth refuge in inner-city Sydney run by Captain Paul Moulds, a Salvation Army officer who works with him around the clock, day and night, over the two years the filmmakers spent shooting there. The film follows Moulds and the young people who cycle through his refuge, kids the system has mostly given up on, capturing what happens after abandonment and abuse rather than the causes behind them. It includes scenes of drug use and street life shot without softening, along with the profanity that comes with that world, because the filmmakers were more interested in accuracy than comfort. Australia's homeless youth numbers run into the tens of thousands on any given night, and this is one refuge, one worker, and one kid trying to find a way off the street.