In the small coastal town of Porpoise Split, Australia, Muriel Heslop is a young, aimless woman and an out and proud ABBA fan, who wants to get married, which is made all the more difficult because of her abusive and domineering father. When she meets the quirky Rhonda Epinstalk, she steals money to fund a vacation, changes her name to Mariel, and turns her world upside down.—Tom Daly