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A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.

18 year-old Peter lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and rebels constantly against their imposed middle-class goals and conventions and the materialist values they represent. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his only real ally being his girlfriend Julie. Peter's relationship with his parents reaches its boiling point when he borrows his father's new car without permission and is left by him to spend the night in jail after Peter is arrested for reckless driving. Peter runs away from home and moves into a rooming house, and eventually gets a shady job as a parking attendant. His relationship with Julie becomes exponentially more complicated and he finally realizes that being alone in the real world is much harder than he ever imagined.—pr1mal_1

In a story of understanding the problems of modern youth in conflict with the standards of their parents and of middle class society, teenagers Peter and Julie, "affluent delinquents," in their love affair and in their first transgressions against the law and convention, are searching for clear directions in a world of confusing change.—alfiehitchie

Eighteen year old Peter Mark is a Grade 13 student in Etobicoke, suburban Toronto, about to take his final exams for graduation. While he doesn't yet know what he wants to do after he graduates, he does know he doesn't want a conventional life like his parents' where everything is centered on chasing the almighty dollar without a meaningful goal for working beyond survival or supporting family. His parents are not positive role models for him in they frequently arguing in their differences, his father, Warren, hands off on his upbringing beyond being the breadwinner in owning a car dealership, while his mother, Mary, is overbearing in her singular goal for him being to go to college. That goal is threatened as Peter, in his rebellion, has been skipping classes with his girlfriend of one year, Julie, Peter already having done poorly in his final exams in the previous term. That rebellion leads to a falling out between Peter and both his parents. As such, Peter is forced to try to make it out on his own without their financial support, and without them being there to bail him out if he isn't able to make it. Julie's own end of high school life and her future also plays into what happens with Peter.—Huggo