Beautiful and vivacious Karin Atwood dines with friends up in San Francisco the night of graduation from high school. She is assaulted but a stranger rescues her. A short time later, she moves up to Berkeley, California to attend the university during the turbulent 70's. Her attention quickly turns to the hippies, the free love and the drugs all around her. She becomes entangled in a relationship with an immature young man who only wants her body. That would have been fine for her in high school but she is only a few years short of adulthood, and she wants more. She falls for a good man that she is surprised to find was the Good Samaritan who rescued her from being assaulted. But confusion, misunderstandings and lies nearly destroy their love. But it takes time and a death of a loved one to make Karin realize that where this man is, her home is.