Me And Eli is a story about two boys, Zach, a lonely Amish boy and the other, Eli, a forest boy. They discover each other one June evening in 1952 in the woods surrounding Zach's parent's farm and together they share a summer of carefree fun doing the things boys love to do, swimming, climbing trees, just being boys. But, things are not what they appear to be in Varnsfeld and there is a tragic incident which changes everything for Zach and Eli.