Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Bafta-winning TV adaptation of the classic children&s novel by Clive King Barney (Thomas Sangster) is a shy ten-year-old who&s spending the summer holidays with his grandparents One day while out walking he is chased by the village bullies & tumbles down an overgrown quarry There on the quarry floor he encounters an apparently humanoid figure with thick shaggy hair & two bright eyes This creature turns out to be Stig (Robert Tannion) a caveman who is hundreds of thousands of years old Gradually he & Barney learn to communicate with other Together they forage through the rubbish dump at the bottom of the quarry using the things the villagers throw away to improve Stig&s cave So begins a very special friendship & a tale which has charmed children & adults alike ever since it was first published in 1963