Faith, dark arts and a coming of age

This dark and mesmerising fable set on Tyneside in the mid-60s is based on the best-selling novel by author David Almond (winner of the Carnegie Medal and twice winner of the Whitbread Award).

Fourteen year old altar boy, Davie, lives a normal life - football with his mate, Geordie, walks in the park with new girlfriend Maria - the only dark cloud on his horizon is 'Mouldy', the violent town bully.

Then Stephen Rose comes to town. A reject from a seminary, where not even the priests can cope with his strange influence, Stephen quickly dominates his Aunt, Crazy Mary Doonan, turning her garden shed into a workshop where he makes amazing sculptures, clay figures that if you believe hard enough he can even bring to life.

Davie is captivated by this mysterious outsider and soon finds his life moving further and further from safe normality to a world where anything seems possible...