A Children's Film Foundation film set in Australia. When a child nearly drowns his friends decide to start a local lifesaving and surf rescue club. They first have to raise the money for a surf boat but there's some prize money at a local race. Then their enemies vandalise their boat. It's just one trauma after another. The film was shot on location at Bungan Beach and at Artransa Studios in Sydney. Many of the child stars had never acted before. The actors were given brief training in surf lifesaving.