Motion-picture script version of short novel FOOTHOLD at Amazon.com. The script has 3 foreign settings (north Africa and France) and 3 US settings. A child soldier is groomed from N. Africa through Paris, Vancouver and north Seattle. But so many things keep directing him away from the control of the sect that wants him, starting with how a shattered cassette case title landed on his foot that day back in his shepherding village. He finally makes his break but nothing can stop the calamity that strikes Seattle.