Seymour Herson is the least popular student at a private school in Manhattan. He's painfully shy and physically inept, but Seymour's solitary existence abruptly ends when he meets the new transfer student: Elliot Allagash, evil heir of America's largest fortune. An unlikely friendship develops between the two loners, but as Seymour's popularity blossoms, he feels increasingly uneasy with Elliot's wily designs