Where children must learn that they're alone, even within their families. When Frank is moved to The Golden Age, the polio convalescent home, he enters a little world that reflects the larger one, where everything occurs: love and desire, death and poetry. Hospital, he befriends Sullivan, a poet, who inspires Frank with his love of words and how they can change a life. Thirteen-year-old Frank, survivor of Nazi-occupied Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio. All of them, like him, stranded, wanting to go home.' Perth, 1954. A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here. 'He felt like a pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals.
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