The End of the Golden Weather
In a fictional 1930s seaside town, a twelve-year-old boy watches unemployed neighbors attempt a riot, changing how he sees them and the local policeman. He then befriends Firpo, a mentally challenged young man who dreams of running in the Olympics; when Firpo’s beach race ends disastrously and he is institutionalized, the boy confronts the world’s injustices and the end of childhood innocence.