In what promised to be the Summer of Summers, Sean 'Nod' Hickey and his friends Dodge, Eyebrows and Pinhead Duffy begin their adventures with the levity that every 1970s child remembers. Soon, though, the tensions of adolescent confusion, dysfunctional families and the deepest of tragedies - untimely death - tug at these boyish relationships, dragging them into the real world, the world of growing-up.