Two eighteen-year-old boys unexpectedly find themselves sharing a room when they first arrive at Oxford. University life draws them together at whirlwind speed as they find themselves playing opposite each other in a student production of Hamlet and, after a few false starts with other people, playing together in bed. They find that love has many lessons to teach them as they grapple together with their emerging sexuality, deal with the designs and machinations of others, and looking beyond the delights of bedtime, tentatively dare to look at the face of lasting happiness.