Double Trouble

Double Trouble revolves around twins separated at birth. Yuma, city girl, is a keen dancer, and lives in a Sydney beach side suburb with her well off father, Henry, an art gallery dealer specialising in Indigenous art. Kyanna, bush girl, loves any kind of sport, and lives on a remote community outside Alice Springs in central Australia with her mother... More »

Double Trouble revolves around twins separated at birth.
Yuma, city girl, is a keen dancer, and lives in a Sydney beach side suburb with her well off father, Henry, an art gallery dealer specialising in Indigenous art.
Kyanna, bush girl, loves any kind of sport, and lives on a remote community outside Alice Springs in central Australia with her mother Freda and her extended family. She knows very little of the city or surf.
When Yuma’s father returns to Alice Springs to buy some paintings, Yuma is puzzled by all kinds of people saying hello to her as if they knew her. When she accidentally bumps into Kyanna, an Indigenous girl of the same age, the pair are struck by their physical resemblance.
Perhaps they’re family? Perhaps this is the key to their family arrangements? Perhaps Kyanna’s mom is Yuma’s too? And Henry is their dad?
They’ve never really known the truth about their past. On impulse, they decide to swap places, so that Yuma can meet her mother, and Kyanna see her father for the first time. But they decide they’ll keep their family connection a secret, as a way of finding out what really happened when they were separated and why their families have never met since. Talk of twins being a ‘bad omen’ and ‘bad luck’ on the community hardens their resolve to keep their new found secret.
Everything goes well until Yuma’s father discovers his daughter has an important history test in Sydney, so he sends Kyanna home early, and there’s nothing Kyanna can do about it.
And with her air ticket used by her newly discovered twin, Yuma has to stay on community with her mother, helping out at the community shop – until the twins can work out how to swap back again.
As they live in their newly exchanged families, the twins have all kinds of adventures and learn all kinds of things about the different communities they are now in. Yuma learns about her mother’s life, going bush, eating bush tucker, doing dot painting, playing football, or making the mistake of going swimming in the waterhole with Kyanna’s friend Aaron. Dance-obsessed, an attempt by Yuma to obtain a little private space in which to practise sees her meet a baby joey kangaroo, and get lost in the wide open spaces of the desert landscape.
Yuma also meets up with Kyanna’s friends, Iona and Lavinia, and with her extended family, her grandparents Milly and Jimmy. And when she’s not helping Aaron with his schemes to make documentaries on community life, she’s watching him learning to rap.
Kyanna discovers the beach, life in a big city, the dangers of mall shopping, Max, the boy next door, and the perils of being made to do dance practice with Yuma’s fiendishly dedicated friend and sometimes mean girl Sasha. Max provides the nerd power to hook the twins up via computers so they can talk to each other and scheme for ways to swap back.
Meantime, Kyanna has to do battle and bond with her younger step brother Heath, a feisty schemer, who’s so surprised at the strange new ways of his sister that he thinks an alien’s moved in with him.
Eventually the twins have to reveal their secret to their closest friends and family – when Yuma gets lost in the desert, Iona finds out there are actually two of them, and after flirting with Sasha Max also helps out.
Using an Indigenous awards ceremony as an excuse, the twins eventually work out a way to persuade Freda to let Yuma travel back to the city.
Reunited in Sydney, Kyanna and Yuma play games with their family to see how easily they can pass detection, and join forces so that Yuma can pass an important dance audition. When Heath flees the dance audition in consternation, the twins realise they need to bring him into the loop because they have one last mission – to discover the truth about their past, and to bring their families together.
That involves persuading their father Henry to make another trip to Alice Springs, so the past can be uncovered, old events healed and forgiven, and new connections made in a last celebratory dance that brings family and friends together ...
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