During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it.
Tom Sawyer is a 12-year-old boy in Missouri in the 1840s. His best friend is Huckleberry Finn, who doesn't go to school or to church, spends his days fishing, smokes a corncob pipe and has no use for society.
