Its a story about early love and cruelty of the world which is destroying itself. The main heroes, still kids, not able to understand the system of false values which is being given to them by their families and surrondings...
In their own unsuccessful revolt they become victims of artificial consolation which drugs bring them. A society who in this way destroys its small rebels really in the end destroys itself.
It´s shocking to know that not only in the US, high drug usage by teenagers is high. In Serbia around 300-400 youngsters die from drugs in a country with inhabitants less than 10 million. It deserves to be seen, for it is a good movie which will shock you in the end with these statistics.