Overview

Orphan Paul Blake's prep school is also his home. So, when the other boys leave for the 1956 Easter vacation, Paul is thrown upon the company of the despised headmaster and his wife and his somewhat eccentric grandmother, Mrs Blake. He is befriended by fellow sufferer Matey, the elderly Latin master also condemned to spend his vacation at the'school, who provides an avuncular companionship for the boy on the painful, yet exciting, verge of adolescence.