mb. Ints/Ext.Here is part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome standing in for the author is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother overworked father and his worldly older brother Stanley