The road trip is on! It's the early 80s, and two good friends, Matt and Sandy, decide to head off around New Zealand's South Island in a battered old van. They are accompanied on their journey with a ready supply of humour, if not by much money. That humorous take on things definitely comes in handy, as along the way they get themselves into plenty of trouble, both by their own doing, and by just sheer bad luck. The absolute beauty of the places they visit is in sharp contrast to some of the people they meet, and to some of the misguided situations they find themselves in. Notwithstanding more than a touch of occasional danger and general mishaps, they never lose their great appreciation of humour, which always, somehow, manages to help them sort things out.