François Seurel, the son of a primary school teacher in the northern French province, finds a long-awaited friend in seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes on a November Sunday in 1890. The two boys are dreamers, sleepwalkers between dreams and reality, enthusiastically captivated by the allure of an inner world full of beauty and love. When Meaulnes encounters the beautiful Yvonne de Galais in an enchanted mansion but quickly loses sight of her, he embarks on a quest with François that will test their intimate childhood friendship and determine the fates of both men years later in Paris. Quickly becoming a cult book in France, this poignant story tells of a young man whose childhood was too beautiful and of the enchanting yet tragic friendship between two impetuous dreamers.