You Are Not Alone is a 1978 Danish coming of age gay movie. It revolves around the love between two boys Bo and Kim. Bo is 15 years old while Kim is 12. Kim's father is the headmaster at the boarding continuation school which Bo attends. Kim lives with his father and mother Anna in the school compound.
Bo is gay and already had a crush on a boy back at home before joining the continuation school.
The school is all boarding. All the boys are in their adolescence years and the school is having a hard time dealing with some of their coming of age behaviors. For example one day the headmaster is taking some officials from the municipality on a tour of the school when they all bump into a room full of newspaper and magazine cuttings of women not dressed. He orders the boys to take them down.
The municipality grants the school money to build a gymnasium but some teachers think there might be better use for the money. One proposes building a dormitory to house girls. The headmaster is against a mixed boarding school looking at other examples in Denmark. He thinks a gymnasium is good for the boys' development.
Kim prefers to play and hang out with the bigger boys in the continuation school. His parents do not like it because they think most of them are naughty. Kim however insists kids from his school are boring to hang with. Kim spends most of his time with Bo. Bo likes to tease Kim with sexual questions or acts to see if he can figure out. It turns out Kim is too young to figure out most of his advances.
One day Bo bumps on two boys in the bathroom cuddling. He asks them to later switch off the lights and goes to sleep. One of the boys later asks him if what they were doing is stupid and Bo answers it was totally okay. Bo explains that it does not matter whether one is with a boy or girl so long as they love each other. He also reveals that he was with a boy who he loved.
One day the boarding supervisor comes upon sexual material plastered all over the bathroom. He tells the headmaster who wakes all the boys up at night. Ole takes responsibility and the headmaster decides to expel him despite resistance from some teachers. Students do a walk out from their classes to protest that decision and it is later rescinded.
Kim goes to a party in the woods with the bigger boys. They have wine and are in the company of some girls. Kim gets to drink too much wine which gets him drunk. He goes back home with the group but inside the house he falls from the stairs waking his father who discovers he is drunk.
Bo has been teaching Kim many things to do with sex including masturbating. Kim in turn has taught some of his friends including Tony. Tony's mom Mrs. Jensen is not amused when he comes one day at home to find his son masturbating with the floor and telling her sex is good. She makes a complain to the headmaster.
During end of year graduation ceremony the boys present a film in front of their parents and teachers. Non of the teachers nor the parents know what it is about. All they know is that it is based on the commandment "Love Thy Neighbor". The short film begins with Kim and Bo staring romantically then Kim running into Bo's arms. The two cuddle and kiss romantically like two gay lovers.