When a young Southerner moves to New York City during the beginning of World War II, he meets Jewish people for the first time and must reconcile their existence with the growing air of anti-semitism.

Living with his family on an island in New England one summer, a teenager falls deeply in love with his neighbor at the same time that a mysterious visitor begins visiting his parents in the evening.

A professor tries to convey to his students the magnitude of the most perfectly crafted poem ever written in the English language: “Lycidas.”