In the year 1968, fifteen teenagers from a poor rural high school in Arkansas fought to fit in with an academically accelerated city school. Among those students was a Cajun named Mitch Dewey who was determined to win the heart of a girl who made Marilyn Monroe look like leftover guacamole. During the time when our nation was politically, musically, religiously, and socially at war with itself, a story of sacrificial love unfolds. Read slowly: you only get to be seventeen for just one year.