Breathless

Synopsis
Charlie has lived life trying to avoid the train wreck of a life that is
her mother. And she is trying to deal with the physical consequences
of the wreckage.
Desperate to forget the last year of her life and trying to put it behind
them, her and her Dad Mitch move to the coastal town of Cronulla
hoping to find some peace of mind in the slower paced life of the beach
culture there.
But the consequences of her past life are savage, and constantly flood
her mind with memories that are so painful they stop her from
breathing...then the blackouts come.
All she wants is to be left alone.
When school stud Cohen takes an interest in Charlie, she doesn't know how to respond - is she just a conquest for him? More importantly, does she even like him? Then Charlie meets similarly-distant Tyler, who's also new to school. Just as Charlie begins to feel comfortable with Tyler, he goes missing from school for a few days, leaving Charlie vulnerable to Cohen's advances in a local nightclub. But when they meet the next day at school, it's Tyler who gets Charlie's first kiss. Falling in love with Tyler comes with a price, as is clear once the FEDs come knocking on Charlie's door and out of necessity place Tyler in witness protection, having witnessed his father's murder in Melbourne last year and Charlie with him as she is now implicated from hanging out with Tyler.
Tyler forced to leave promising career possibilities, elite schooling and all he'd ever known behind him in Melbourne - and then some - finds himself on the run from someone else's mistake.
And sometimes someone else's mistakes have serious implications on our
lives especially if the mistakes are made by someone we love.
Implications that in the end we can't run from.

But witness protection is not the only difficulty Charlie faces when her mother suddenly appears on the last day of school and tries to make contact with her.
It seems that bedroom doors with locks won't keep the world at bay forever...