The Sullivans

Set in wartime Melbourne, The Sullivans follows a close-knit middle-class family as World War II reshapes everyday routines, relationships, and hopes for the future. While loved ones face separation and uncertainty, the household must adapt to shortages, changing roles, and the emotional strain of life on the home front. Blending intimate family drama with period detail, the series charts resilience, community ties, and the lasting impact of a world in conflict.

The Sullivans is a period family drama centered on a fictional middle-class household in Melbourne as Australia enters World War II. As the conflict expands, the family’s ordinary concerns are steadily overtaken by rationing, blackouts, news from abroad, and the pressure to contribute in whatever ways they can. Each member is forced to adjust to new responsibilities and difficult choices, from shifting work and domestic roles to coping with separation from friends and relatives. The series balances private moments at home with the wider rhythms of a city at war, showing how neighborhood bonds, workplace dynamics, and social expectations change under strain. Over time, the emotional costs of uncertainty and loss leave their mark, even as small victories and acts of kindness help sustain them. With richly observed period settings, the story follows the Sullivans through wartime challenges and into the complicated readjustments that come afterward.