Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it ÔÇô the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses ÔÇô until the only problem that love can’t solve tried to destroy them.