A young man returns to the town of his youth after a period spent on the road. Unable to rekindle a high school flame, Cal Bedrick, who is Jewish, soon meets a very nice Catholic girl, Frannie Sinkiewicz, who falls hard for the troubled young man. Their courtship leads quickly to a marriage that fills their acquaintances with doubts. The young couple's story is set against the backdrop of a fictionalized Wausau,...