Sisters Jodi and Shannon run a funeral business with the local priest – their father. Jodi sings the dead into the ground, while younger sister, Shannon, dazzles the living with a laser pen show that transforms funerals into a stadium event. And one day, Jodie’s voice will help them escape Dumfordton forever.

Every year Shannon predicts the winner of The X-Factor. She’s never been wrong, not once. And this year, the winner’s going to be Jodi. Bouncing between her sister’s ferocious loyalty and an absent father – who’s never recovered from his wife pulling a Shirley Valentine on a family holiday to the Gold Coast – Jodi is caught between two futures: the one she sings for and the one she stands in – a shag-carpeted basement. As reality presses in, her confidence begins to crack and a household that has survived on fantasy quickly starts to come apart.