β Scribed by Benjamin, Chris
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Demoralized by his job and dissatisfied with his life, Mark punches the clock with increasing indifference. He wanted to help people; heβd always believed that as social worker he would be able to make a difference in peopleβs lives. But after six years of bureaucracy and pushing paper Mark has lost hope.
All that changes when he meets Bumi, an Indonesian restaurant worker. Moved from his small fishing village and sent to a residential school under the authoritarian Suharto regime, Bumiβs radical genius and obsessive-compulsive disorder raise suspicion among his paranoid neighbours. When several local children die mysteriously the neighbours fear reaches a fevered pitch and Bumi is forced to flee to Canada.
Brought together by a chance encounter on the subway, Mark and Bumi develop a friendship that forces them to confront their pasts. Moving gracefully between Canada and Indonesia and through the two menβs histories, Drive-by Saviours is the story of desire and...
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