The summer of 1959 promises to be the best ever for seventeen year old Richie Donnelly. Having just arrived in the eastern Long Island resort town of Sea Shell Harbor, located near The Hamptons, Richie meets Mickey, a local teen who takes Richie under his wing and promises to show him the ropes. With a whole season of swimming, boating, water skiing, barbecues, rock and roll music and girls, girls, girls to look forward to, what could possibly go wrong? Richie is about to find out-the hard way-that life is not just all fun and games-even for a seventeen year old.