James, who feels lost in his new city and new school, sets out to make new friends only to encounter three bright, incompatible classmates.
Eager to prove his manhood, James claims to have scored with an attractive classmate (Teri Nunn) who has a bad reputation.
James misinterprets his attractive young teacher's fondness for him to be something more than it is, which sparks malicious gossip and causes her to reexamine her relationship with her adoring student.
A distraught James worries that his sluggishness is more than just a case of the blahs when he checks into a free medical clinic to undergo tests for venereal disease.