When successful businessman David Morris is contacted by an old friend, Gwen, he remembers how close they had been at one point. With an eye to reawakening their relationship, he agrees to look up her brother, Phil to help him get up to Cambridge on his way to visit her.
When he sees Phil again after many years he sees that the once soft and effeminate boy has become even more so. Over time his relationship with the boy becomes more intimate as Phil becomes Philly and then Phillipa.