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It's 1962 and a young boy is sent to a minor public school in East Anglia. He is just the sort of boy for whom the dying empire's education system proved such a nightmare. He's not athletic, he has an independent yet introverted personality and he doesn't think brute force is the way to dominate. He is, in short, an outsider, an observer. He is also naive and - much as he thinks he isn't - overindulged. So when he meets a strange boy on the beach - a boy outside the system, surviving alone and depending largely on nature for his sustenance, it's no wonder that our lad falls completely under his spell. But all is not quite as it seems...