Fourteen-year-old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a
way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a
mysterious scarred man named Justin McLeod, nicknamed "The Man Without a
Face." Charles enlists McLeod's help as tutor for the St. Matthew's
school entrance exams, his ticket awat from the unpleasant restrictions
of his home life. But more important than anything he could get out of a
book, that summer Charles learns from McLeod a stirring life lesson
about the many faces of love.