Innocently protecting the whereabouts of the wallet from the descending throng of police who turn up at the trash site searching for it, the boys soon learn there is a deeper story to this seemingly insignificant item - and, having already lived a life based on desperation and insatiable curiosity, the boys defiantly set about discovering more. It holds the key to a mystery even the government want solved - and just as these three youngsters don't even know it, their world is about to be turned upside down. Gardo, Raphael and Rat (Jun-Jun) are everyday boys living life in filth when they discover a wallet containing a tidy sum of money - but the wallet contains much more than any of them could have dreamed. There's an entire subcontinent of life living in and around the trash heap - and this is where we meet three boys. As you delve into its pages, you are taken deeper and deeper into the sights, sounds and smells of the poor, where boys and girls fossick daily for pickings amongst mountainous piles of garbage.īut not only that, the kids actually live in the garbage, in ramshackle houses made of anything and everything - with parents, aunties, brothers, cousins, grandparents.
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