Stefan DeSalle

It is during the Cold War and all Americans have a view of Russians as one thing: bad people. A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friendly and will bring them no danger and thus go against the ideas of their parents, as well as the government.

To keep his parents from going through with their divorce, a 14-year-old hires a mechanic and part-time lawyer to sue them into staying together.