Sirens

A TV series about a prodigal mother who revives her dying hometown by forming the local women into a volunteer fire brigade.

The Setting

Peripeteia is a speed-through town on a rough road between The West Coast and Central Otago. It’s mainly used by trucks looking to avoid traffic, and locals who want to drive fast without being pestered by police. Things have only got worse for the town since the fish processing factory moved north, the price of wool crashed and dairy farms figured out how to use machines to replace most of the farmhands. The biggest employer these days is a prison on the outskirts of the town which incarcerates men from all over the South Island, and attracts scumbag WAGs to wait for their babyfathers to get out. Peripeteia has rugged coasts and gorgeous views of the Southern Alps, but hardly anyone to appreciate them. When it comes to human activity in the area, we’re talking dangerous roads, bad drivers, derelict housing, struggling businesses, unsafe work practices, broken homes, and twisted relationships between often desperate and frequently demoralised people who struggle to manifes…