Tom is sixteen, a new arrival in a small American village of Madalin. He is a protestant and a rebel with a reputation. Danny is thirteen and from a well-established village family, a model Catholic boy and a member of the choir and the school swimming team. Set in the late sixties, the era of Vietnam, civil unrest, dope and The Doors. The two boys belong to rival gangs but, for all their differences, they are inevitably are drawn together. This is the fatal attraction of opposites.