Having all but given up hope of ever being adopted, the tight-knit friends are on a seaside holiday one summer when they find themselves competing for a place in the home and family they all long for. Los Angeles-based television director Rod Hardy ("The Practice") will return to his Australian homeland to direct the film, and Richard Becker ("The Real Macaw"), managing director of entertainment production and distribution outfit the Becker Group, will produce. After purchasing the rights to the book in 1993, Becker pulled the project together with backing from German distributor MBM and Steve Bickel's Aura Entertainment, which holds worldwide rights outside Germany and Australia, where Becker Entertainment will release the film.

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