Little Sister: Tragedy of Premature Love

Little Sister is a novel written as a screenplay set in 1943 in the Upper San Francisco Bay. A seventeen-year-old boy and a fourteen-year-old girl pretend to be brother and sister during the day but live together as parentless lovers at night in a mothballed U.S. Army house trailer they've made into a home. When the Army moves the trailers, they head for Montana. Caught by the police, they are arrested for stealing. On being transported by a sheriff to stand trial in Boise, the sheriff rapes the girl, the boy kills the sheriff.