"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like," begins J.D. Salinger's ageless classic, "but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." Skipping out on prep school, 16 year old Holden Caulfield goes on a weekend jaunt to New York City. Looking for someone or something to hold on to, Holden encounters only conflict, and the hypocrisy and phoniness of adult life.