About to graduate from college at the height of the Vietnam War, Peter Dandridge struggles with the sort of emotional conflict common to draft-eligible young men of his time. A southerner of rural upbringing, he has fallen in love with Stephanie Ames, a medical student whom he meets in a hospital emergency room. He longs to splice his life to hers while they prepare for their careers-hers as an orthopedic surgeon, his as an architect.A football injury...