When it came to football, Billy was different. Black hands grab the ball. Black feet kick the ball. Black hopes rise up with the ball to the sickly white sky. No one can stop him now. He forgets about the river, and the people of his blood .' But who can forget their own past? Billy finds that the ties which hold him to the people of his blood are strong indeed .The stories in this volume of World Stories are by Australian writers Mena Abdullah Ray Mathew, Judith Wright, Archie Weller, Dal Stivens, David Malouf, Marion Halligan.

一提到足球，Billy眼神馬上專注，手抓住球、腳用力的一踢，黑人的希望就像是這顆足球飛上藍天。他的勢力無人可檔，他忘記他的血脈，但誰能忘記過去呢？Billy發現人們跟他的血緣是緊緊連繫在一起的。這世界系列故事由澳洲作家Mena Abdullah Ray Mathew, Judith Wright, Archie Weller, Dal Stivens, David Malouf, Marion Halligan所作。