Daydreams follows Elise, a 17 year old living in suburban Melbourne, Australia, as she finishes her final year of high school. When her partygoing older brother, Chris, returns from overseas, Elise begins to question who she is and how she wants to live her life. As adulthood fast approaches, she struggles to navigate her friendships, relationships and studies; watching on as her brother lives a seemingly carefree life that she wishes she could have.