A story of such familiarity, the one anyone can recall, the one in which the man loves the girl more than she could ever imagine to love him in return. And as the word love may be used, the question may be asked: what is love, and what is obsession? This story, of a familiar absurdity, is the one of William Hathaway; a man who feels he has lost all that life is worth, forcing him to give up his life in the North for one anew in small-town Georgia. Where in just a summer, William finds himself rooted in the heart of a young girl, one which transforms his life to an extent lost to man.