Polly Smith lives with her widowed father Pete and is mad about using her camera. on her first day at secondary school she plans to film a diary of her progress but accidentally films pupil Serena extorting money from classmate Charlie. Polly confronts Serena in front of Serena's boyfriend Luca but ends up humiliated and later Serena attacks Polly and breaks her camera. Fortunately Luca and Charlie have filmed the attack and Serena is punished whilst Polly returns home to find that Pete has restored his old Super 8 camera. They settle down together to watch their old home movies.