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Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.

Tim struggles to sustain a lifelong romance against a backdrop of crushing social prejudice and personal instability. This intimate portrait captures the fragile beauty of a love that refuses to break even as the world demands its dissolution.

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