When Graham comes home, he finds Oliver but returns him home with minimal fuss. Enraged, he breaks into Graham's house, gets drunk, and commits minor acts of vandalism. Heartbroken, he heads home, but on the way back, sees his mother with Graham, and assumes the worst. He tracks them down there, and whilst searching for them on the crowded shore, sees Jordana with a new boyfriend. One night he finds that his mother and Graham have gone to the beach. Suspecting his mother and Graham are having an affair, and seeing that his father is depressed Oliver attempts to repair his parents' relationship. He cuts off contact with Jordana because he thinks it will make her ordeal easier, an example of his unintentionally cruel and incompetent social methods. Unsettled, he decides that the Jordana he loves is at risk because the emotional events surrounding her will "make her gooey on the inside". Later, he attends an early Christmas dinner at Jordana's house and he witnesses her father break down. Oliver considers poisoning Jordana's beloved dog to make the death of her mother less painful. Meanwhile Oliver's relationship with Jordana is growing, but he learns that her mother has developed a potentially fatal brain tumour. Worse yet, new age guru Graham (Considine), an ex-boyfriend of his mother's (Hawkins), has moved in next door, and his seductive and flirtatious character is arousing Oliver's suspicions. At home, Oliver becomes concerned that the relationship and sex life of his parents is falling apart and that his dad (Taylor) is depressed. Walking home after their ordeal, she takes his hand and they kiss, and Oliver quickly establishes Jordana is his girlfriend. The plan backfires, the two are publicly bullied, and Oliver is beaten up for refusing to call Jordana a massive slut. She takes pictures of them kissing, but it turns out to be a plan to make her ex-boyfriend jealous. One day she invites him to meet secretly after school, instructing him to bring a Polaroid camera and a diary. He is in love with a mischievous but straight-talking girl named Jordana (Paige) in his year, and goes as far as bullying an overweight classmate to impress her. Oliver Tate (Roberts) is a 15 year-old Swansea boy in 1986 who is convinced that he is an unrivalled genius who is widely loved by his classmates, when in fact he is pretentious and socially alienated.
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