** spoiler alert ** The story is about two young boys (best friends) living through their last years of innocence. One of the boys father is management at the local casket plant while the other’s dad is a union laborer. Unrest breaks out and, at first, the boys don’t really understand the difference between management and the union laborers – until the strike both dads were friendly with each other. Someone blows up a portion of the plan killing the managing owner and, because the plant isn’t as profitable as it once was, the remaining family (owners) would like to sell the plant or close it down. Although changed, the boy’s friendship ends up lasting for many years.