"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a
private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is d
umped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself -- possibly because he's (maybe)
gay -- the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It's a weird time to fall
in love, but that's what happens to Skim when she starts meeting secretly with
her neo-hippie English teacher, Ms. Archer. But then Ms. Archer abruptly leaves
the school, and Skim has to cope with her confusion and isolation while her best
friend, Lisa, tries to pull her into "real" life by setting up a hilarious doub
le-date for the school's semi formal. Suicide, depression, love, homosexuality,
crushes, cliques of popular, manipulative peers -- the whole gamut of teen life
is explored in this poignant glimpse into the heartache of being 16.
