The sexual awakening a 15-year-old boy working at his first job at a pool in London in the early 1970's.

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Barely out of school at age 15, Mike gets his first job in an indoor pool in London’s East End, where he cleans the locker rooms. There the fresh-faced and still pure boy meets Sue (Jane Asher, ex-girlfriend and muse of Paul McCartney), a loose and cynical young woman. He immediately falls for her and she toys with his desperate, undisguised love. Although she has a fiancé, he stalks her and then her boyfriend too, as he fantasizes a life they could have together. The pool becomes a microcosm of life, where jealousy, rivalries, egos and fantasies that may or may not come true clash together...

Cult film re-edited after being available only as a handful of 35mm copies in bad condition. A melancholy story of first love that is also absurd and cruel, which echoes another classic from the same period, Harold and Maud. The film still works after all this time, thanks to its universal subject matter: the loss of innocence. Music by Cat Stevens, the pop colors of the last hours of Swinging London, the "anti-establishment" dialog and the disillusioned tone of director Jerzy Skolimovski also add a nice touch of nostalgia.