It's fall 1966, and Robert Byron has returned to his home town of Blue Spring in Michigan after serving in Vietnam. Everyone there tries to welcome him home, but he's unsocial and ends up alienating almost everyone. He pretty much keeps to himself through the winter, until the money he'd saved up in Vietnam runs outs, and he has to go back to work. He meets Jean Summers, a teacher at Blue Spring High School who'd just started her teaching career the...