The Bay Boy

It's 1937 in the coal mining town of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. Sixteen year old Donald Campbell is a good boy - attentive, polite and hard working, whether it be at home helping his father, Will Campbell, set up a bootleg soft drink bottling business in their basement, helping his mother, Jenny Campbell, attend to Donald's severely polio stricken older brother Joe, as an altar boy at the local Catholic church, or at school. Beyond financial issues associated with the Depression which have resulted in the family having a hard time trying to make ends meet, they have had their fair share of personal tragedies, including Joe's illness and the death of their only daughter Jean. Regardless, Jenny is a highly devout woman who wants Donald to become a priest. Although Donald does think about his mother's wishes, he thinks mostly about girls at this stage of his life. He is especially attracted to Saxon Coldwell, the daughter of one of the local police sergeants, although Saxon's sister, Diana Coldwell, is more open about her blossoming sexual desires for Donald. Donald's path into manhood and whether he will decide to enter the seminary are affected by these thoughts of the opposite sex, an encounter he has with a young visiting priest named Father Chaisson, and witnessing a murder committed by a person in authority.