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Coming-of-age drama set in 1970s rural New Zealand. Farmer's son Billy (Andrew Patterson) feels out of place at school. While the other boys want to fight or play rugby, Billy's passion in life is watching science fiction movies and re-enacting them with his tomboy cousin Lou (Harriet Beattie), or withdrawing into an imaginary world in which he is Lana, the heroine of his favourite TV soap. Billy's world is changed forever with two important new arrivals into his world: gawky new classmate Roy (Jay Collins) and handsome young farmhand Jamie (Michael Dorman).

A boy has to decide just how far he's willing to go to maintain a new friendship in this offbeat coming of age-drama. Billy (Andrew Paterson) is a 12-year-old boy growing up in a farming community in New Zealand in the '70s. Billy's slight weight problem, his flamboyant personality, and his fondness for costume play has made him a target for bullies at his one-room school, and his only friend is Lou (Harriet Beattie), his tomboy cousin who prefers to play football with the boys and is dreading the onset of adolescence. As Billy resigns himself to his status as an outcast, he's assigned a new deskmate -- a new arrival in town named Roy (Jay Collins). Roy is a few years older than Billy, and takes an immediate liking to him; however, while Billy is a bit fuzzy about the practicalities of being gay (something he's accused of on a regular basis), Roy seems to have a good bit of practical knowledge of the subject and seems keen on pursuing a physical relationship with his new pal. As Billy is torn between happiness at having a new friend and confusion about Roy's level of interest in him, he discovers Roy is also attracted to Jamie (Michael Dorman), who has just hired on to work at the farm owned by Billy's dad.