Jim runs away to find best friend, Amanda, dying of leukemia. Is the man who turns up at his school really his long lost father?
Jim runs away from the city to return to the village of his birth and Amanda, his best friend from back then. An old man, who suspects that he's a runaway, warns him that "there are bad people out there" and it doesn't take long before Jim encounters them. Having lost money and satchel and unable to find his way back, he gets "lucky" or, as his mother puts it, it's "God directed luck". Jim finally makes it back to the village where a man turns up at the school claiming to be his father whom he hasn't seen for half his life. This sets Jim's imagination spinning wildly as he has no idea of what to expect. He just hopes it's not the man he's seen lurking around the school...