A beautiful young girl from the country experiences life's bittersweet realities in this coming-of-age drama set in the rural South. When a highway is built near her home and a traveling carnival comes to town, the teenage Naomi (Simone Griffeth) falls in love for the first time and is exposed to the seedier side of human nature. Mercedes McCambridge, Buddy Foster, Ford Rainey, Beverly Powers and Maidie Norman star.