The rebellious teenagers

VILNIUS, SEPTEMBER 1987.

Summer is over. The air smells of change and cheap cigarettes. Jake, Tricky, Fresh, and King stand once again before the gates of their high school: four friends bound by a forbidden passion - graffiti. Hidden in alleys and away from prying eyes, they paint dreams in color on gray walls, defying a world that refuses to change.

Jake is impulsive and rebellious, and that's why he spent the whole summer doing house chores after getting caught tagging a wall around the city. Yutani, a year older, quiet and studious, watches him with a mix of curiosity and disapproval. He teases her, she corrects him - yet between them grows a silent connection, built on irony, glances, and half-spoken words in the school corridors.

Meanwhile, Tricky keeps chasing her dream of becoming a dancer, Fresh hides behind his music, and King, increasingly weighed down by his family's financial struggles, starts missing classes to help his parents at their small shop.

Days go by - lessons, small dramas, and secret murals painted under the cover of night. And in the air, they can all sense something dark approaching, though none of them can yet tell what it is.

When the summer of 1988 arrives, the friends escape for a few weeks to Klaipėda, where Fresh's aunt Ella lives. There, among the beaches and the Baltic sunsets, Tricky meets Brody - a foreign boy who has recently moved to Lithuania after his parents found work in the coastal city. Between them sparks a brief, intense story, full of music, dancing on the sand, and whispered secrets. But as summer ends, Tricky and Brody decide to part ways, accepting that what they shared was just a moment in time.

Meanwhile, King decides to leave school to help his family, promising, however, that he won't leave his friends behind. Jake and Yutani, between banter and small gestures, grow closer - close enough to care, but not yet enough to say "I love you" on the last day of school.