Jack Simpson (Mick Molloy) has three memberships to Cityside Lawn Bowls Club but his interest in the vibrant bowling community begins and ends with the car park and its prime location in the middle of the city. The bowls club happens to be directly across the road from his middling telemarketing job, and he turns a tidy profit by selling the other two parking passes off to fellow commuters.
Simpson isn’t alone in his disinterest in the noble game of lawn bowls – with membership dwindling and a money-grubbing developer keen to fill the place with pokies, the club’s president decrees that all current members must become active bowls players to shore up the numbers. Simpson – unwilling to give up his prized parking spaces – suddenly finds himself donning whites each weekend and hitting the greens, as the club and its struggles slowly fill his life with a renewed sense of purpose.
