Ghost Boys

Ghost Boys tells the story of a remarkable 12-year old boy, Michael, using his love of football and dermination on the field but channelled into the memory of a happy experience, to extricate himself from has a life-threatening experience .

Micheal is sent off to boarding school at the end of the summer after he finished primary school, but after he had scored the winning goal in a cup final in his hometown.

He is homesick there, unhappy under a brutal and abusive corporal punishment regime. The boarding school is situated in a remote mountainous area on the shores of a lake, in which two boys drowned 150 years earlier, trying to evade the clutches of a menacing pursuer on horseback.

Alerted to the danger he is in by the ghosts of the two boys, Micheál resolves to escape from the school.