Life seen through the eyes of an adolescent disconnected from his feelings.

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Oliver Tate, an introverted teenager, likes the sound of his own voice and tells himself stories in which he's the hero to compensate for his shyness and escape the oppressive ambiance at home - which he shares with his depressed oceanographer father and his trapped mother who flirts with a cheesy New Age guru. Oliver is in love with Jordana, a pyromaniac in his class who thinks he's weird. He tries to get her anyway, and she begins to go along but forbids him to be sentimental. But once Jordana cracks, he doesn't have the courage to follow through, given that it's hard to show one's feelings when everyone, himself included, would interpret that as a flagrant show of weakness...

An original and fresh look at the internalized world of the adolescent, with freeze-frame techniques and Super-8 videos brilliantly showing how a teen would make movies starring himself. 100% British deadpan humor.