The story of a school romance that in
“adult” years is destined to be battered
by various trials that commence with the graduation ball; an event described
by the director as a “crazy provocation on the part of the parents, who
want their children to start their adult lives happy and rich”. Classmates is
a movie about young people and for them, and it deals with their first efforts
to find themselves in their adult lives, their wavering attachment to
love, their liberation fromthe views of their parents, and their experiences
of feelings and their innermost nature.