1: Tom & the Colour Village & the Old Man
Synopsis
Welcome to Colour Village. A village with a Grey Centre and four
Colour Districts, where people wear half-coloured glasses that are
best not worn for too many years—because eventually they begin to
stick to your face! It's also a village where even social media is
divided by colour.
Tom has just moved to the Grey Centre of
Colour Village with his parents. Before long, he has made a new
friend from each of the four Colour Districts. He also meets the Old
Man, who lives on the edge of the forest. Known throughout the
village as the crazy inventor, Ben has spent the past twenty years
trying to create a pair of multi-coloured glasses with clear
prescription lenses for everyone in Colour Village. Everyone warns
Tom to stay away from him—so naturally, Tom goes to meet
him.
Together they discover a remarkable way of understanding
Colour Village: a simple model in the shape of a flower. With the
Flower Model tucked safely under his arm, Tom sets off with one
straightforward goal—to celebrate with his new friends at a party
in Ben's garden on the edge of the Colour Forest. While Ben is so
absorbed in playing his drums that he doesn't notice what's happening
around him, someone else succeeds in doing what he has been trying to
achieve for twenty years...
Bringing Colour Village
together.
And how!
The Opening
1 Moving House!
It
was a glorious morning when Tom woke up in the Colour Village for the
very first time—a place where, if you weren't careful, you might
never be able to take off your colour glasses again. Tom didn't know
that yet. Just as no one had told him that, in the strange Colour
Village, colours argued with one another and even went to war.
Stranger still, they took in each other's refugees from those very
wars—only to start arguing all over again about who should pay the
bill. And the bill was always settled in the one colour everyone in
the Colour Village seemed to treasure above all others: Gold. Even
though the people of the Colour Village wouldn't trade their colour
glasses for all the gold in the world...
Tom had arrived the
previous evening with his parents, long after darkness had fallen.
The removal van had brought all their belongings earlier that day.
The living room was crammed with furniture: a yellow dining table
surrounded by brightly coloured chairs, a blue sofa, two yellow
cupboards, and a mountain of cardboard boxes. All the beds had
already been made. "We'll unpack everything tomorrow," his
father, Rob, had said. Tom had been so tired that he had gone
straight to bed.