The Boy With Shoes tells the humorous story of a young boy growing up in Kenya in the 80s, an era that set pace for the current day middle class. It revolves around this boy who is lucky to have the only pair of shoes in the whole school, but which he can’t wear because it makes him the outcast. Shoes have been used to depict the never-ending antagonism between the Haves and Have Nots, a common occurrence in Africa. Life for the boy with shoes is one long battle between trying to fit in the society yet still being in tandem with his hawk-eyed disciplinarian mother going by the alias Taylor, after the Woman of Steel.