Tim has had to change schools owing to his parents recent divorce. He likes his new school but there is a fly in the ointment - a gang of bullies who want money, something he doesn't have. Every day he has to devise plans to keep out of there reach, and every day the gang become more determined to catch him. In the summer holidays Tim's mother makes him audition for a film - he gets the part. This saves him from thinking about the gang for the summer. The film company take him and his mother to a castle deep in the countryside. The film is about a boy being bullied at school and saved by an alien - a part Tim knows only too well how to play. But why are the C.I.A. making this film?