Ian MacKender liked to boast that Penwinnard Boys' Home was the best facility of its type in all of the UK, and perhaps the world. But whatever he could do, the best he could do, his boys still longed for true family. Young Sid very much wants a new mum and dad, and is willing to put a great deal of effort into finding one. He is goodlooking enough, 'passable, ' as he is told, but as he says rather too often, 'You gotta have manners.'