A disgraced surfer and his cautious girlfriend find old treasure and new love after they outwit smugglers on Bali.

FOOLS GOLD for a younger audience.                                                                   

SYNOPSIS:

JOE and SKIP are friends who live on Oahu, where surfing is like breathing. Skip wipes out on a big wave in a surfing contest and cuts his foot so he has to drop out. This means there isn’t any prize money to repay loans from his parents. Skip is humiliated in front of his friends as his big dream vanishes. Since Skip can’t surf anymore, Joe asks Skip to run his import business. Joe sells clay pots from Bali to Waikiki gift shops. Soon Skip is winging his way across the Pacific. Upon landing, Skip finds no money and no inventory. Skip learns that Joe owes money to a Balinese gang who smuggle antiques. Now he’s their target. Skip meets Joe's former girlfriend, HEATHER, who is very angry because Joe also owes money to her Dad. She reluctantly agrees to help Skip buy more pots to get the money back. They go to a village in the mountains to look for pots. At lunch, they overhear the gang members plotting to steal a valuable antique pearl, called the Pearl of Peace. Skip decides to stop them in an effort to redeem himself.

The Pearl is the size and shape of a human brain. It was created as a symbol of peace but was stolen from a Chinese palace and ended up in the hands of a planter until the gang took it.

Skip and Heather follow the smugglers to their house, but escape after they are seen. They don parade costumes, are chased by temple guards, escape in a boat, fall into a waterfall, and end up in a secret pool. They follow steps up to the Temple of Death, but are caught by the smugglers in a parking lot.

Heather is held hostage in the smugglers home while Skip is forced to hide their stolen antiques and gems in his pots. Later, he manages to jump out of a car and escape with Heather. They cross a rope bridge in the monkey forest and fall into the river, but eventually find police officers to help them. They track the shipment of pots to a cargo ship, where a gunfight ensues and the smugglers are finally captured. Skip returns the pearl to the planter`s house and tells Heather that he loves her. Skip gives her a pearl and diamond engagement ring and she says yes. The story ends with Skip surfing a perfect wave.

BALI BREAKS