The girl is fourteen, very ripe for her age, self-centered and secretive. The boy is nineteen, into motorcycles, leather jackets, and ducktail haircuts. He begins their relationship by seducing her, hardly suspecting that his moment of triumph in an empty barn represents the end of his autonomy. His will is no match for her own. And whatever has been going on in that strange, repressed family of hers will eventually lead to his destruction.
