Who are you with? In view: an ordinary crisis of relations, clearly indicated in the motives of the decision that initiates the disintegration of the connection, which is a consequence of the correlation of personal choice with public opinion, allowing the hero to maintain a high status in his social environment.
All went well for the boys, until his father’s decision to get rid of the costly factory pitted him against the collective interests of the townspeople, making his son a defendant in the eyes of classmates who picked up a single protest impulse, tearing out an antagonist, and thereby confronting him with the choice of another: to be rejected or reject a friend, to remain loyal or sell out, protecting his social capital.
Public pressure is irresistible, and the attempt made at the initiative of the comrade to escape from him by flight remains unsuccessful, finally breaking the former alliance, not without a hint of a new, outstretched stranger, who considered his honor above group malice, without fear of being alone with her.
The sad-optimistic openness from the past reminds of live communication and real contact, replaced by artificial in the expanding environment of modern virtual communities, subject to the same patterns and driven by the same mechanism of group and personal action, raising, lowering or leaving at their own.