Series
One Summer follows two boys from Liverpool - Billy and Icky. They are
in trouble with the law, haven't been to school in months, and have made
enemies within the local gangs.
Billy comes from a dysfunctional broken family - with a depressed gambling addicted mother, and a sister who hates him. Icky comes from a family of 10 children - his mother would never miss him.
One
day Billy decides to try to recapture the one happy moment in his life
- a school camping trip to Wales. The two boys escape with the stolen
bingo winnings of Billy's mother, and make their way by train to the countryside.
There they find Kidder - a reclusive drop out school teacher, who against
his better judgement takes the boys into his home. The emotional bond
that forms between the three is at the heart of One Summer.
Episode
1
Billy
and Icky return to school after months of truancy because Billy wants
to go on the school camp to Wales - but he is knocked back.
After a fight with the local rival gang Billy and Icky are targeted and
warned they are not going to be protected by their gang leader anymore.
Billy steals his mothers bingo winnings and the two run away to Wales.
Episode
2
After
nearly being apprehended by the ticket inspectors with invalid tickets,
Billy and Icky jump from the moving train and make their way to the camp
site on Benllech mountain. The boys take a joy trip on a tractor and on
their way to the camp they have a series of encounters - with a hostile
farmer who warns them off his land, and a kind farmer's wife who betrays
them. When the boys eventually reach the camp site they find it deserted
and all seems lost, however at the end of the episode the boys find what
they think is an abandoned house to live in.
Episode
3
Billy
and Icky meet Kidder, the owner of the seemingly abandoned house. At first
he agrees to let the boys stay for the night, but Icky breaks all of Kidders
plates by skimming them off the stream when he is supposed to be washing
them. They set out to find replacement plates and steal them from a local
house. When they return they find a group of locals graffitiing the house.
They chase them off, and eventually Kidder agrees to let them stay. Billy
is beaten up by the local gang, and Kidder discovers Icky is illiterate.
Episode
4
Kidder
continues to try to teach Icky to read, with limited success. While Billy
and Kidder are away at the markets Icky finds the Liverpool boys at the
campsite and brings them back to the house. They all get drunk and trash
the house. Meanwhile at the markets Billy meets Jo, a local girl. When
Billy gets back he finds Icky sleeping off a hangover and Kidder's money
gone. They go back to the campground and get the money back from Rabbit.
Kidder gives the boys handmade about their adventures, and the three
go to a local dance, where Billy kisses Jo for the first time.
Episode
5
After
arguing with Billy, Icky returns to Liverpool. Billy and Jo's romance
blossoms. Back in Liverpool Rabbit and the gang find themselves caught
in an ambush by the Swanjacks gang, and Rabbit accidentally stabs one
of the boys. Icky abandons the gang at the Southport fair and tries to
drive back to Wales, but in his flight back, he is chased by a police
car for evading the freeway toll, and tragedy occurs. Back in Wales Billy
is shocked to learn why Kidder has become a recluse, but when the police
arrive to take Billy back to Liverpool, Billy comes back to defend Kidder.
