The year is 1922. Greg Edmondson, a World War 1 veteran and medical student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, has set off on a trip in his new motor car to visit his Aunt Gossamer in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Shortly before he arrives at Aunt Gossie's, Greg has car trouble, and seeks help on a nearby farm, whose big cash crop is sweet potatoes. He meets Samantha, a beautiful girl with a sweet disposition. This is the heartwarming story of a budding romance, set in a time long past, in T. Whitman Bilderback's novelette, "Sweet Potatoes."