Juliet Cavanagh-Fforbes (Barbara Stephens) is a young Australian, single mother ballet teacher. Fed up with dating jocks more interested in themselves and sport, she packs up her somewhat long-suffering son Andy (Adam Fernance) and together they leave the big city in search of a new life teaching ballet at a small outback town. Her intense dislike for sport (ballet is art therefore it isn't the same) clouds her judgement during her first encounter with the towns teenage Aussie rules football team, whom she mistakenly takes to be hard, rough bikers out for a bit of rape and pillage. She only realises her mistake after she has driven several of them off the road and ends up in front of an irate Sullivan (Henri Szeps) who, in addition to being the town cop, is also the coach for the aforementioned "haven't-won-a-game-all-season" soccer team. Things go from bad to worse when Cavanagh-Fforbes secretly starts to teach the Wombats ballet steps in order to improve their fitness and they subsequently start winning games. The budding, but fraught-with-problems romance between the hapless ballet teacher and short-tempered cop encounter multiple complications when Sullivan starts teaching Andy soccer behind his mothers back and the whole town realises why the Wombats are winning. Needless to say it is not long before Cavanagh-Fforbes ends up in jail and the Wombats need to break her out if they are to stand any chance of winning the league.
