The protagonist of the British drama series "Feather Boy" is an ordinary teenager named Robert Noble, who struggles to find friends among his peers. The other kids consider him strange and weak, and they mock his actions and interests. One day, Robert becomes a volunteer at a nursing home, where he meets an elderly lonely woman named Edith Sorrell. A friendship develops between the woman and the boy, and Edith asks him for a strange favor. He must go up to the attic of an old house and investigate the death of another child.