It follows a schoolboy named Archie, whose feelings for his childhood friend Amelia are put to the test when American transfer student Billy Walsh comes into their lives.

During an evening the two families spend together, the couple encourage Rupert to take a chance at love again after the death of his wife Jules, who passed from sickness when Amelia was still young.

Amelia, overhearing this conversation, begs Archie to find the Love Doctor's phone number, believing he may help with her feelings for Billy.

After overhearing popular girl Amber gossiping about her in the school bathrooms, Amelia is prompted to make herself over, switching her trousers and ponytail for short skirts, pigtails and lip-gloss.

While failing to make her intended impression on Billy, a public altercation she has with Amber catches his attention and he asks Amelia out on a date.

On the night of Heathbrook's June Ball, rather than being escorted by Billy, she sneaks out through her bedroom window and instead bikes to Archie's home to confess her feelings.

Meanwhile, Archie desperately takes off after Amelia, but upon arriving at the school is intercepted by the swim team who beat him up and string him upside down from a flagpole.