A 17-year-old lands her dream receptionist role at a major Sydney grocery head office in 1981, forging close bonds with payroll coworkers who feel like family. When a wild Christmas house party leads her to mix diet pills, alcohol, and pot with a coworker, she plunges into a blurred, drug-fueled night she never saw coming.

• A 17-year-old receptionist relied on diet pills to stay slim and "wired" because overweight women had far less workplace visibility in 1981.
• Coworkers Sue and Jackie became a surrogate family, shaping Marce's ideas about independence and adult life more than her own relatives did.
• A Christmas house party mixing diet pills, alcohol, pot brownies, and bongs became her drug-fueled rite of passage into the friend group.