Movie Description:
In a shabby apartment in Moscow, an American journalist asks a retired spy why he betrayedhis country and defectedto the USSR fifty years ago. The answerstake them back to 1932, where in the closed atmosphere of a British boys` school, young Guy Bennett realizes that his attraction to his classmate is morethan a passing phase. There, in an environment permeated by desire and denial i the wake of a gay classmate`s suicide, Bennett fallsdesperately in love with a younger student, James Harcourt, and is introduced to Marxism by Tommy Judd, hismost loyal friend.