Growing up in Illinois in the 1950s and 1960s, Bob and Jeff are intimate friends who are separated at age eight by a family tragedy that breaks their world apart. Reunited in high school, they both have changed and each is afraid the other won't like him anymore if he knows too much about him. In a story of self-acceptance, reconciliation, and the creative power of abiding love, they come to realize that neither of them had anything to worry about.