 Alabama, 1957. Pampered Souther belle Maggie DeLoach (Ally Sheedy) and her fellow sorority sisters Delia June (Virginia Madison), Keefi (Francesca Roberts), and chapter president M.A. (Lisa Zane), at Randolph College have lived the cosseted good life, free from worry and the strife that s starting to affect the rest of the Deep South during the Civil Rights movement. But when Maggie meets a liberal and dashing young photographer named Hoyt Cunningham (Treat Williams) who talks about the impending changes in the South, as well the radical talk from her outgoing classmate Aiken (Phoebe Cates), Maggie knows her life will soon change too.