Blunt plot
In 1932 Guy Burgess (Anthony Hopkins) is a promising student at a prestigious English boarding school, a so-called public school for the upper class, but actually an expensive private school where the children of the rich and famous are educated in an elite atmosphere to later travel the country. to lead. Due to the isolation and absence of girls, homosexual relations are tacitly allowed there, provided they are discreet and unobtrusive. Guy's roommate, an equally eccentric eccentric who detests the school system, condemns social inequality and openly flirts with communism and Marx, tries to persuade Guy to be reasonable. Challenged and humiliated, it is now a matter of making a choice between his orientation, his real being, and the pleasures that his origin and environment can offer him, provided he adheres to the unspoken rigid rules.