美国南部一个落后的小镇，一群走向青春期的孩子，一个发生了一个意外的夏天。导演大卫·戈登整篇都采用了缓慢优美的表现手法。Set in a small town in North Carolina, George Washington is the story of a tight-knit multi-racial group of working-class kids caught in a tragic lie. After a twelve-year-old girl breaks up with her boyfriend for a sensitive, deeply introspective thirteen-year-old boy named George, a bizarre series of events and an innocent cover-up launches their insular group on individual quests for redemption.