Imagine a small, innocent boy on the verge of puberty, leaving comparatively complacent Canada to a remote NATO air force base in France. Rickey becomes a member of the PMQs apartment block's gang his family live in. Not only does the gang make his life intolerable, Rickey makes friends with a bully for protection from the gang who mysteriously disappears. He tracks the friend's corpse to a fenced-in war bunker. Military Police from the base don't know whether the mangled corpse committed suicide or was murdered. Back in Canada, Rickey has to contend with personal anxieties by himself, which...