 Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of  42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy s main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who s married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her.