Sean is bullied at school but his mum is too busy to listen to him, so he runs away in the middle of the night. He is befriended by another runaway, Molly.
Seeking to flee his unhappy home life and the bullying he receives at school, 12-year-old Sean takes to the streets, where he soon meets serial runaway Molly.
Sean and Molly continue their search for Molly's old home. They use a badger tunnel to cross a motorway but it starts to rain and the tunnel fills up with water, trapping Sean.
Runaways Sean and Molly befriend an eccentric old man who offers them a lift on his narrowboat, but the mood soon turns hostile when Molly insults him.
