Room For a Stranger throws together an unlikely pair of characters in Melbourne’s outer suburbs. Meg Hughes is old. She’s feeling every bit of her age and doesn’t like where things are heading. As carer for her sister, she never married, and now she wonders if anyone will be there to hold her hand when her time comes. When her home in Melbourne’s suburbs is broken into, Meg joins a home share program to have some company and protection around the house.

Andy is studying biomedicine. He lives in central Melbourne amidst a vibrant community of international students. When his father’s cleaning business in Hong Kong begins to struggle financially Andy has to give up his apartment and find cheaper accommodation. Andy’s also struggling to live up to expectation that he exceed and become a doctor. As exams approach he’s desperate to conceal the fact he feels in over his head and might fail.