Fourteen year-old Brian Lowe suddenly has more to cope with than his new found interest in girls when he finds a body under the wharf. But the body disappears by the time the local copper comes on the scene and since Brian's been known to stretch the truth at times nobody believes there ever was a body. Humiliated at every turn as he tries to find out what happened to it, he begins to wonder if it was only a dream and determines to forget all about it, but fate decrees otherwise...