 When Pete s plane crashes in the swamp, he s rescued by young Tammy, an unsophisticated backwoods girl who lives with her lay-preacher-cum-moonshiner grandfather. When Pete s well, he goes back home to his fiancée. But then Grampa gets sent to jail and he sends Tammy to stay with Pete. At Pete s house, Tammy s home cooking, enthusiasm and quaint sunshiny personality bring about changes in Pete s family and in Pete himself.