No job, no income and no way home - that's the brutal reality some of our top female rugby league stars are dealing with in Australia.
Eight NZ-based players relocated across the ditch to compete in the NRLW season, which has since been cancelled and now they're being told to find their own way home.
These women were literally dancing for joy after being contracted to play on the Gold Coast.
Karli Hansen's one of several Kiwi players now stranded in Australia, with the NRLW season postponed, meaning she's now one of many trying to get back into the country.
"But then when I found out that I don't know if or when I can get home, that hit me a little bit," Hansen tells Newshub.
"There have been times when I've gone into my room and cried, because I miss home and the uncertainty if I can get home."
Hansen and her colleagues believe their current situation could've been avoided, if the NRL had made a call on the competition sooner.
"That's where the frustration around the postponement and lack of communication, because it meant now we're just stuck," says Newcastle Knights forward Charlotte Scanlan.
That lack of communication gets even worse.
"We weren't meant to book our own MIQ," adds Hansen.
Players have only recently been told they'd have to find their own spots in managed isolation, which is at full capacity, so they're forced to stay put, which is proving costly.
"Obviously not working and not living at home, I had to text Mum asking for money, because the NRL still haven't paid us."
The little money they have received could also come at a price.
"There's been talk about now that's going to come out of next year's contract," says Scanlan. "Which is another shambles and it's all come to light."
Shambles is a polite way to sum up what's happened since the music stopped.
