Over the years fourteen-year-old Nathan has learned a lot about muscular dystrophy from his best friend but is unprepared for Simon's rapid decline and approaching death.
Garth and his friends, working to earn money for a trip to Fiji by thinning trees, must run for their lives when a small fire quickly engulfs a pine tree which ignites a full-blown forest fire.
Alienated at school and troubled by his parents' separation, Kit loses himself in running, until one day an accident on the road catapults him into what seems to be a parallel universe.
