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Josephine Alibrandi (or Josie) is living in two worlds. On the one hand, she's your typical Australian teenager. On the other, there is almost no part of her life that is unaffected by her Italian heritage, culture and family. She doesn't know quite where she belongs - not at her private Catholic school which she attends on scholarship and not with her extended family who shunned her mother when she became pregnant with Josie as a teenager. Things are only going to get more complicated for Josie with the attention of Jacob, school captain of the local public school and the arrival of her long lost father.