Fire Bird International Award Winner 2024

Young Archie Crane shines shoes on the mean streets of a tough blue-collar town amidst ex-cons, drunks, and dirty cops. He hates his transplanted town, his new school, and most of all the frightening Boogy—a big Neanderthal misfit who wants his shoeshine spot. When someone drops a mysterious stolen gold coin - a British Sovereign - in his money can Archie is thrown into a world of trouble where everyone catches gold fever. Turning the gold into cash for bus ticket money to see his estranged father is going to be an ordeal he never imagined.