Louisa Atherton is 50 years old. She has a loving relationship with her daughter Holly, gets on well with her mother Minna (most of the time), she's found her gold nugget, she owns her house. She has a caring group of friends, a job, and a place in her Rainbow's End community. She's even pretty well decided her childhood mate Nick, the local mechanic and assistant coach to the Roos, might just be her Mr Right.... Okay, of course not! Louisa has a talent for complication and nothing's ever going to go that smoothly in her life. Not until she figures out who she really is, as well as how to deal with her sensitive, eco-conscious daughter, who's hitting VCE and her previously bolshy mother who worryingly is beginning to feel and show her age - and a Mr Right who's proving not so easy to wrangle - or for Louisa to figure out how she really feels about him.

Running Time: 50 mins

Browse Drama

Louisa and Holly return to Rainbows End, with Louisa determined to make some significant changes in her life, only to see none of her plans go quite as she hoped.

While Louisa tries to secure a job at the new, improved Rainbow Echo, Holly becomes involved in an environmental protest that advances further than she ever could have initially expected.

Louisa and Holly decide to become more assertive in their respective love lives. Meanwhile Louisa publishes her first edition as editor of The Echo, with disastrous consequences.

With Deb marriage on the rocks, Louisa, Marg and Gemma swing into action to look after the wildlife shelter while Deb and Trev go on a long postponed romantic evening.