Something to Live For

Something To Live For is the story of Sydney sider Jen Willis and country boy Luke Dawson.

Jen is dealing with some changes in her life, and trying to figure out where her life is heading. At the age of twenty-five, she sees her dreams of finding her forever man and having a family of her own slipping away. Coming from a small family with only her mother and older brother, she wants to find her happy ever after guy and fill their house with lots of children. Jen is also the sole carer for her six-year-old nephew Owen while his father’s away working in the mines of Western Australia for twelve months. She’s been caring for him for the past five months and things have been on a steady downhill slide. His behaviour is becoming more and more challenging for Jen, and she struggles to find some middle ground with him, but until her caring duties are over she puts the search for her dream man on hold.

Luke Dawson has been living with kidney disease all his life and is at the top of the list for a kidney transplant. In order to be closer to the hospital Luke had to leave his farm in Tamworth and move to the city for three months while he gets his new treatment routine under control, or until a suitable donor can be found. 

Luke is dealing with the loneliness of living in a city where he doesn’t know anyone, and with the realisation that his time is finally running out. He promised his sister he would fight until the end, and that’s what he plans on doing. She needs him. Luke has been there for his sister and her two boys since her husband walked out on her and their children five years ago. They all live on the family farm together and that’s where he needed to be right now, not stuck sitting in a little townhouse in the city.

After a chance meeting one morning Luke and Jen start to spend some time together. At first Luke is reluctant to share everything with Jen, but over time he opens up and lets her into his life. Could this new friendship turn into something more, or will time and circumstances get in the way?