The Most Beautiful Place

Joschko, the fourteen-year-old orphan who is cared for by all the folk of a small fishing village, yearns to see the rest of the world, to see the mountains, to see snow. He goes off alone and has a series of adventures, knowing that the police-at the behest of his towns-people-are hunting him; at last he realizes that home is the most beautiful place in the world, and he starts back home.