sentences:  In 1975 at the United States Virgin Islands Film Festival in St Thomas, "Bim" won a gold medal special jury award as "a film of unusual merit".Bim (Bhim) Singh, an Indian teenage boy living in the countryside of Caroni County in central Trinidad during the British colonial-era, is sent to live with his paternal aunt, Babsie and her African husband, Balo in Belmont, Port of Spain after his father, Bhagwan Singh, a famous trade union leader for sugar-cane workers, is shot to death during his sister’s wedding.Bim’s uncle, Balo is an abusive, racist, gambling addict and dockworker.