Sunbird has saved thousands of children from human traffickers through his Foundation, which is in danger of financial ruin when a group of colleagues, family, and friends find secret archives left behind by his deceased, journalist lover. Can they use secrets locked inside to save the Foundation?

SYNOPSIS:

Englishman Lawrence Rob (60), alias Sunbird, is now retired from thirty-five years of fighting for his own child-rescue Foundation (called Foundation) after the kidnapping of his daughter. Now living in relative obscurity and working only as an occasional consultant to the Foundation, he’s employed as a full-time tech in a small UC Berkeley lab.

Since he left full involvement with the Foundation six years earlier, its infrastructure has slowly fallen into financial problems. Donorship has fallen radically, and his Foundation colleagues don’t have the PR and financial acumen to save it.

Then, unknown to Sunbird, some colleagues at UC Berkeley, friends, and family find archives that Sunbird’s deceased journalist lover, Fatima, left to UC Berkeley’s library, that contain audio and visual records of many years of secret Foundation history: battles against human traffickers, interviews, horrendous images of abused children, etc. After successfully hacking into the archives, they’re hoping that, with proof of Sunbird’s years of saving thousands, they can help him raise funding for the Foundation and even nominate him for the purse-rich Nobel Peace Prize.

The problem: they know Sunbird wouldn’t want the Foundation to be compromised, fearing loss of Foundation effectiveness and breaches of security for volunteers. But only if Sunbird releases the archives can they submit his accomplishments to the Nobel committee. To disguise their intentions, they need to convince him to release the archives to Interpol, which has helped the Foundation considerably in the past, that the agency needs the archives to improve the way they deal with traffickers. Perhaps Sunbird would trust Interpol to not compromise the Foundation. They need to hurry because the nominations deadline is soon upon them.

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