For sixteen-year-old Jerome and Mariette, wars were the stuff of history and faraway places. Until, during an Anzac Day family reunion, their boys-against-girls prank war gets totally out of hand, and Mariette vows revenge.
When the stand-off spreads to the school and becomes a revolution for student rights, they begin to learn that conflict is never that far from home or school and that it isn't the acts of people but their emotions that are ultimately responsible for the difference between war and peace.
Yet once the principal involves the police, a whole new war begins...