Fraser is a New York City teenager who moves to an Italian military base with his mother. Slowly he gets to know a group of other army kids on the base, as well as some local Italian teenagers, who are all hanging out on the beach and having a little too much fun. He eventually spends a lot of time with Caitlin, and the two embark on a period of self-discovery over the summer. Their friends think he and Caitlin are a couple, but Fraser actually misses his friend from home, Mark, while also developing an innocent romantic bond with an elderly soldier named Jason.