His free spirit roams with his pet pelican, Mr Percival and his secret Aboriginal friend, Fingerbone Bill. He knows no other world.

Storm Boy lives with his recluse father on South Australia's lonely and beautiful coast. Here his free spirit roams with his pet pelican Mr Percival and his secret Aboriginal friend, Fingerbone Bill. Suddenly there are intruders, the local school teacher who wants him to take lessons, a resentful wildlife ranger, and duck shooters. As he grows up Storm Boy is forced to choose between a life of continued isolation and the challenges of the outside world.