 Giles De ath; widower, stuffy British author, out-of-step fogey. Giles gets locked out of his house one day and opts to see an E.M. Forrester adaptation at a local cinema to pass the time. He mistakenly goes into the wrong theater and, as he is about to leave the purile American film, notices a young actor who immediately strikes his fancy. From there, we go on a journey with Giles as his obsession with the mediocre young actor goes from slight interest to a schoolgirl like obsession. This evolution ultimately brings him to Chesterton, Long Island, home of the actor. His miraculous encounter with the lad in some ways pushes the reserved Brit s emotional threshold over the top. The subtext of a homosexuality is too obvious to be taken seriously, for the real subtext is something more subtle.