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Léo and Rémi are two thirteen-year-old boys. After they have spent the long summer holidays in innocent intimacy with each other, their close friendship is thrown into disarray as their relationship is noticed at the beginning of the school year and commented on by their contemporaries at school. In reaction to their sometimes insulting or intrusive comments, Léo attempts to distance himself from Rémi. Rémi is devastated by Léo's unexplained withdrawal and coolness. Rémi kills himself. Léo seeks comfort and grows closer to Rémi's mother, Sophie, and finally is able to express to her his sense of guilt to which she has a dramatic but, finally, empathetic reaction.