About
Two families - De Lutrelles and McFarlanes. They both live in the same house, but 130 years apart in time. De Lutrelle's: father Gervaise, mother Violette and daughter Constance. In their age, around the house were goldfields. Family emigrated from France with the remnants of their wealth, and hoping to find gold so they would restore their fortunes. McFarlan's: father Doug, mother Jenny who decided to get in a new business: eco-tourism. Guests will stay with Doug and his family - second wife Jenny, stepson Fergus, daughter Mandy, and sister-in-law Lily, who maked troubles wherever she goes! Doug has also another son, Daniel. When the series begins, Daniel decides he wants to meet the father who left him and his mother Caroline when he was just a baby. He invites himself to stay for the holidays and, with the help of the mirror, he changes everyone's life, his own included.
Cast
Simon James
as Daniel McFarlane
Ben Revell
as Fergus McFarlane
Antonia Prebble
as Mandy McFarlane
Jovita Shaw
as Constance de Lutrelle
Zoe Bertram
as Violette de Lutrelle
Tina Regtien
as Jenny McFarlane
Simon Ferry
as Doug McFarlane
Barry Quin
as Gervaise de Lutrelle
Melanie Thompson
as Mai Ling
Denise O'Connell
as Aunt Lily
Seasons
Episodes
Season 1
Arrival
The mirror appears in an attic in the country. Daniel is on his way to met his father, step-brother Fergus and half-sister Mandy for the first time. The reception that he receieves is less than welcoming. After Mandy gets upsets and runs to the attic, Daniel follows her, in the reflection of the mirror he sees a girl. Mandy gets in the way and they inadvertantly go through to the year 1867. They get back only, later on, for Mandy and Lily become trapped and they spend the night in the du Lutrelle barn before the mirror is knocked back into alignment.
Gold
Aunty Lily decides to go through the mirror to try and steal the crown that the de Lutrelle family keeps hidden. Fergus goes through the mirror to try and help Constance, but gets side-tracked by the gold-fields. He trades a pocket knife for a land lease with one of the miners. After Lily's attempt to steal the crown is thwarted by Daniel and Constance, she moves the mirror when she returns through, with both Daniel and Fergus trapped.
Trapped
Fergus continues working on the gold fields, while Daniel tries to find a way to help Constance. After Constance's father kicks Daniel out of the house he hides in the barn until all is clear again. Fergus lands himself in trouble with other miners and is rescue by Constance's father. Aunty Lily continues to cover up about where the boys are. After Lily replaces the mirror and goes through to snatch the crown out of Daniel's hands they struggle sending Constance and Daniel through the mirror and leaving Lily behind. Only to then realise that the mirror is cracked in several places.
Crown
The mirror continues to refuse anyone to travel through it while it is cracked. Lily now posses the crown in 1867. Meanwhile the mirror finally starts to repair itself. Lily travels into town and places the crown in the bank, while leaving Fergus hanging to the side of a cliff. Lily buys the de Lutrelle's property. Jenny and Doug hardly remember they have a son as Fergus begins to be erased from history. Daniel rescues Fergus while Constance tries to get the crown back from the banker. Back in present time Lily is on a shopping spree, buying as many clothes as she can. After spending $3512 dollars, the crown now in de Lutrelle possession, Aunty Lily is left standing in the shop in nothing more than her underwear. Caroline decides to go back home, leaving Daniel behind.
Ghost
Constance and her mother have their photo taken and when it is developed there is a mysterious figure in the background. The children have been hiding the mirror so that Lily can't go through. Fergus scans the photo negative into the computer to try and find out who it is. While Gervaise works down in the cellar strange things are occurring. The ghost then appears to Constance and writes to ""Beware"". They discover that the ghost is that of Charles Jamieson who built Limerick house in 1842 when he came out from Ireland. They find out from a local New Zealander, who tells them that he died in the cellar. The ghost was warning them of a cave in happening in the cellar, luckily Constance goes through the mirror in time to save her mother from being crushed.
Chamber Pots
Aunt Lily is at it again, stealing anything from the de Lutrelle house that might fetch her a price back in present time. Constance's parents believe that their maid Mai-Ling who is to blame and loses her job. Daniel, Fergus and Constance go into town to find Constance's property which Lily has already pawned. Mandy locks herself in the bathroom because she feels that she's always being left out of everything. Mai-Ling is offered her job back and accepts, she also finds out the mirror's secret.
Iceman
While out walking on the glazier, Daniel finds a frozen body. Violette tries to talk her husband into buying a cow to generate more money, but he refuses and decided to journey to sell his great-grandfather's stud box. They believe that the body that Daniel found is Constance's father. Constance sets out to follow her father, before the others get back through. A fellow tried to steal Constance's hat pin and they regroup together despite Fergus' injury. Gervaise return home after being robbed of his stud box, meaning it was the robber who would had died in the storm.
The Widow Graveney
With Constance acting more and more ""unlady-like"" Gervaise decides that the best thing he can do for her is to hire someone to teach her to be more of a lady, this is where Mrs Graveney comes into the picture. Mrs Graveney, a poor widow by day and at every other moment the ringleader of a group of orphan thieves. One of them, Spike takes Mandy prisioner and won't let her go even after she spills the secret of the mirror, but why would he believe that?
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