 Eleven year old David Wiseman is mad about cricket but no good at it. He has all the kit but none of the skill, and he s a laughing stock at school. So when a Jamaican family move in next door and build a cricket net in the back garden, David is in seventh heaven. But this is 1960 s England, and when the neighbours start to make life difficult for the new arrivals, David s family are caught in the middle, and he has to choose between fitting in and standing up for the new friends who have turned his world upside down.