A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.
The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the triumphant master of his fate, revenging himself on a scornful young female classmate. But then the real events are seen in contrast with the ones Edgar has created in his mind.
Edgar and his schoolmates put on a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet such as the townsfolk have never seen.
