Lola and her mother live in a Brisbane scrapyard van, selling drugs for the criminal Flora Box.

A baby stroller rolls into the raging river and Lola's mother dives in to save the child.

Lola's mother and the baby's father both drown; a bystander cyclist carries baby Christina to safety.

Roslyn gives Lola the globe-shaped key her mother left behind as a final message.

Lola discovers a hospital bracelet reading 'Elizabeth Finlay' on a stuffed elephant inside an old wrecking yard.

Lola reads a newspaper article revealing that Erica Finlay's husband set fire to himself and their baby daughter.

Lola, now 18, arrives at drug client George Stringer's house and finds him dead by suicide.

Police catch Lola after a street chase; Detective Topping offers to reveal her identity if she helps bring down Flora Box.

Lola tells Flora about her art school dreams; Flora scoffs and promotes Lola to work collections with Brandon.

Lola discovers Danny Collins's sketchbook in his bedroom containing a drawing of her shouting she is invisible.

Lola rescues Danny from two men on a city bridge; he declares his love and they kiss in the rain.

Brandon discovers Lola is informing on Flora and attacks her; she stabs his throat before Topping shoots Brandon dead.

Flora kills Topping and Lola flees as Flora's henchmen hunt her through the flooding city.

Charlie is shot dead by Flora; Lola fights Flora in the flooded river and holds her underwater until she drowns.

Danny dives from a bridge to save the wounded Lola floating downstream; she recovers and meets her biological sister Phoebe.

This pool follows the central arc of the novel, tracing Lola's life as an unhoused teenager selling drugs with her mother in Brisbane's scrapyard community. The drowning of Lola's mother forces the girl to survive alone while slowly uncovering the truth about the mysterious woman named Erica Finlay who raised her. Lola is drawn into Detective Topping's dangerous plan to bring down the criminal Flora Box, a gamble that puts her life in immediate jeopardy. Love arrives unexpectedly through the artist Danny Collins, whose drawing of her helps Lola feel seen for the very first time. The story climaxes in a violent chase through the flooded city, with Lola losing her best friend Charlie before facing Flora herself in the river. Lola survives, is reunited with family she never knew existed, and finally confronts the name she was born with.

The headline events driving Lola's story from loss to survival.

Lola quizzes her mother about her real name while they walk along the Brisbane River selling drugs.

Lola's mother reveals her plan to turn herself in to the police on Lola's 18th birthday.

Lola's mother mouths 'I love you' before surrendering to the current; a bystander relays her final words: 'Roslyn will give you the world.'

Roslyn tells Lola that her mother cried often from guilt, hinting that Erica's grief concealed a darker secret.

Lola races to a library computer to search for Elizabeth Finlay but a security guard drags her away before she can finish.

Lola stands in a downtown Brisbane crowd with arms raised, screaming she is invisible, and not one person reacts.

Lola sketches a lonely man dressed as Santa on a train but cannot sign the drawing because she has no name.

Lola holds a knife to the ringleader's throat when four drunk university students try to trap her in a hotel room.

Evelyn Bragg holds a community meeting at The Well about serial murders and the threat of Olympic development demolishing the drop-in centre.

Topping introduces Detective Millar from Perth, who reveals Lola has been missing for 18 years and shows her a photo of her sister.

Lola throws herself over Serge Martin's body to shield him from Brandon's brutality during a collections visit.

Lola and Charlie swim in the Collins mansion pool on Christmas; Charlie tries to kiss Lola and she turns away.

Lola hides underground in Esther's hole for three days while Flora's men search the flooding city.

Lola emerges from hiding during the flood and reaches the scrapyard to find her magic mirror smashed into hundreds of pieces.

Lola wakes in hospital after five days unconscious; once recovered, she and Danny salvage her van and move it to his parents' house.

This pool captures the quieter but equally important events surrounding Lola's journey, beginning with her fraught relationship with her mother and the grief that follows Erica's drowning. These events reveal how the Moon Street community sustains Lola through loss, including Roslyn's memories, Evelyn Bragg's drop-in centre, and the lives of her unhoused neighbours. Lola's drug deliveries bring her face-to-face with loneliness and the steep cost of invisibility, while her investigation into her past stalls at every turn. Her unexpected bond with Danny Collins begins in a stolen Christmas night at a mansion, even as her friendship with Charlie deepens and becomes more complicated. When Flora's forces close in during the floods, Lola must rely on cunning and community to survive the city's drowning streets. The pool closes with Lola waking in hospital and beginning the fragile process of rebuilding her life alongside Danny.

The secondary moments that shape Lola's world and survival.

On Lola's 17th birthday, her mother tells her the Tyrannosaurus Waltz story and the glamorous mirror woman appears for the first time.

After Erica's death, Lola considers drowning herself; the woman in the mirror refuses to let her give up and reveals her name is Lola.

Lola and Charlie visit the Bedrock Wrecking Yard at night where she finds a stuffed elephant she inexplicably recognises by smell.

Brandon reads the Finlay article aloud and laughs cruelly, asking where Lola came from if the Finlays' only child died in the fire.

The woman in the mirror appears battered and missing an eye; she screams at Lola about shared sorrow until Lola smashes the mirror.

Lola follows Danny Collins through the city for days, watching him sketch alone on a bridge before stepping in to save him from attackers.

Topping reveals the phone he gave Lola is also a listening device; Lola admits she stopped searching because truth might destroy her love for Erica.

Danny confesses he once considered jumping from the Victoria Bridge; Lola admits she also wanted to die when Erica drowned.

Lola tells Danny the complete truth about her nameless life and Erica's death without retreating into Buckle's detached narration.

Lola admits to Danny for the first time that the glamorous woman in her magic mirror has a face that looks like her own.

Walking home after kissing Danny, Lola finds drunk Charlie about to be bludgeoned and disarms the serial killer by telling him she just fell in love.

The shattered mirror reflects a hundred fragmented versions of Lola before dissolving; the woman tells her the mirror is not magical—she is.

Lola visits Danny's house during the flood and urges him to stop waiting for her; he refuses and vows to always see her.

Lola charges toward the armed Flora despite a bullet wound in her stomach and pushes them both into the flooded river.

Lola rejects her birth name Iris Gould, enrols in art school, and introduces herself to little Christina da Silva as Lola Inthemirror.

This pool charts the pivotal discoveries and emotional breakthroughs that transform Lola from a girl without a name into one who chooses her own identity. Beginning with the night the magic mirror first speaks to her, the pool traces how the mirror reflects Lola's internal states, from suicidal despair after Erica's death to fragmented grief when the glass is finally shattered. Each revelation about her past, from Brandon's cruel reading of the Finlay article to the truth about being stolen from her family, forces Lola to confront what identity truly means. Her connection with Danny unlocks a new kind of honesty, as she admits truths she has never spoken aloud, including that the woman in the mirror looks like her own face. The city's floods and Flora's violence push Lola to acts of courage she did not know she was capable of. In the end, she rejects the name she was born with and chooses Lola Inthemirror, claiming an identity built entirely from everything she has endured.