Royce and the Boy
A western-esque, Australian outback drama.
Royce and the Boy, is a coming of age story.
The story of a young man trying to find his way in the early 1960s world of hard knocks.
Archie's teacher strongly suggests that Archie, give up on trying to get an education, and instead go out, and look for work instead.
However Archie's idea of a work, and his mother's, are two completely different things.
Archie wants to go driving roadtrains, and his mother won't let him. Then Archie meets Royce...
Bear went over to his writing bureau, and flipped the lid up, and shuffled through a little pile of letters in one of its top pigeon holes. Then turned around to face Archie to show off what he had found, grinning, Bear held a little red book aloft. "You'll be needing this," He said, handing it off to Archie who quickly sucked, butter off his finger tips, and wipe his hands down the front of his greasy overalls before accepting the red pocket sized book. The book had small golden letters inscribed on the front of it, Archie read them out loud, Responsible Driving, A book of instructions for our Road Train Operators.
"Operators," Bear said, stabbing a knife filled with, butter at the book. "I like the sound of that, I found it at the buy, swap, and sell book stand."
