Jack's new friend, Tashi, comes from a faraway land, escaping from a war lord to come to Australia with many imaginative stories to tell.

While hiding out from the mob in the suburbs with his mother, a singer, Jackson uses his fascination with math and numbers to make friends, but strange phone calls and even greater threats endanger not only Jackson and his mother, but his new girlfriend, as well.

Jack's friend Tashi recounts how he outsmarted Chintu the giant and his wife, and Jack tells his father how Tashi freed himself from bandits