 Sammy Raes, a nice, naive law-freshman from a simple family, dies in a form of hazing known as the  flying carpet . The father of the arrogant fraternity president Guy Bogaerts who ordered this reckless procedure abuses his connections to prevent a judicial homicide conviction, while the college authorities prefer to avoid a scandal in the press. However Sammy s freshmen friends Tom Smits and Dennis won t leave it at that.