THE BOY WHO LOOKS FOR GOLD is set a few years after the end of World War II in a small village.
The hero of the story is eleven-year-old Toni Sedlacek, kown as Toni Goldwascher, who lives outside the village, near the river, in the "gold washer's house". Toni loves searching for gold, just like his grandfather used to do.
When he really finds gold in the cove, other village kids go out to try their luck - and out of the sandbank, they dig out something much more explosive than gold: an old carbine and ammunition, buried there at the end of the war...