Handsome, reckless Mike, a cadet at a nearby air base, blinded Barbara Castle to the steadfast virtues of Dave Paulson, the industrious college student who worked on the family citrus ranch. Against a backdrop of legal and romantic problems arising out of the ever-present ""wetback"" problem of the Rio Grande Valley, Barbara gets a longed-for chance to participate in a little theatre group, where she watches Mike's attempts deliberately to wash out of training, and realizes in time that her future lies not in the theatre, but in marriage to Dave. Regional.