The Running Man

There had always been the Running Man—always that phantom form
somewhere in the distance, always shuffling relentlessly closer …
Fourteen-year-old Joseph, a talented artist, is drawing a portrait of his
silent, brooding neighbour, Tom Leighton. To draw him accurately,
Joseph must see beyond the rumours and gossip to the man himself, the
Vietnam War veteran who passes his days tending his silkworms and
keeping his dark secrets. Joseph’s own horror of the running man, the
dishevelled figure of his nightmares, endlessly repeating a pattern,
recedes with his growing understanding of the difficult relationships in
his family.