It is 2007 and the four women who struck it rich on the horses in Amanda Whittington’s Ladies’ Day (2005) are splashing the cash on a four-week trip to Australia. One of the first people they meet is Charlie, a bongo-playing hippy who landed on Bondi beach in 1968 and has not moved since.
Played by Gareth Cassidy, he is a figure of fun, an old stoner who gets his philosophy from songs by Joni Mitchell. His journey to self-knowledge is as tired as his Nepalese shirt.
