Matching Jack 2010

Life seems idyllic for Marisa and her son, Jack Tom Russell, until a poor performance at a school soccer match ends with Jack in hospital and Marisa trying to find her husband, David Richard Roxburgh, who is interstate at a conference. In fact, David is planning to leave Marisa for his current mistress, Veronica Yvonne Strahovski, with his phone off and not a care in the world.

Jack is diagnosed with leukaemia and the only possibility of a cure is if David has had a child from one of his many flings who could be a bone marrow donor. Marisa looks back through his diaries, figures when he could have been having affairs, and goes out door knocking. Unsuspecting women face a desperate mother as Marisa searches high and low for possibilities and the full scale of David’s infidelity is revealed.

Meanwhile, Jack befriends Finn, a young Irish boy in the next bed. He has been travelling the world with his father, Connor James Nesbuth. Initial disdain turns to mutual respect as both Marisa and Connor find their own ways to deal with their respective sons’ illnesses.

While, during this, David convinces a now pregnant Veronica to keep the child, hoping it will be a viable donor for Jack. At the same time Marisa comes across Janice Alexandra Schepisi, whose defiantly rebellious fifteen-year-old daughter Kerry Nicole Gulasekharam might just be David’s daughter making her an older paternal half-sister and therefore a life saver for Jack.

But although Kerry is overjoyed on having a possible sibling and to be a notable protective and supporting big sister, her mother Janice has other ideas on giving her consent for helping Jack.