While out on-country, doing a VR film shoot Tomias, Dahlia and Gordon soon find actual reality colliding with virtual reality when things don't go to plan and they find themselves stranded.

With the Mandjarkkorl Festival fast approaching, Tomias and Dahlia just want to practice their new dance routine, but Tomias's cultural responsibilities and Dahlia's family responsibilities pull them in different directions. They both soon realise that getting what they want doesn't feel as satisfying when it comes at a cost to others.

When Tomias and Dahlia find a box of crackers and decide not to hand them in things quickly get out of hand. Now Tomias and Dahlia must find a way to get Mandjakkorl's Cracker Night uncancelled and prove that they aren't bad for each other.

When Dahlia and Tomias pick the same topic for a school speech competition, their research leads them on a treasure hunt, revealing Dahlia's deeper connections to Mandjakkorl but also some great potential danger.

When Tomias loses his cousin straight after he arrives back home for initiation ceremony, it fuels his own anxieties around boarding school, whilst Dahlia confronts her own purpose in Mandjakkorl.

When Tomias gets offered a place in a Melbourne Boarding School, he doesn't know how to tell Dahlia, deciding instead to hide it from her, whilst the kids' band together to free the town chickens, now locked up by Armstrong, an act that will be his undoing.

Tomias and Dahlia's friendship is in tatters but can a trip to a special place heal both them and country?