 Deanie would risk everything to be with Bud. Bud is afraid of his father, the most powerful man in a small Kansas town in 1928. Deanie will have to wait until Bud spends four years at Yale. In the meantime he can t spend a lot of time with her, because Deanie isn t that kind of girl. His sister Ginny, back from Chicago, is a constant reminder just how bad a bad girl can be.