Marty learns lessons of life and about girls.

Marty Clifton is a timid boy who is an easy target for the class bully or for crafty girls who want to take advantage of him. However, by learning from his experiences and listening to advice from his elders, he develops an exceptional ability to understand people and deal with them successfully. He gains confidence with each new experience and rather quickly develops into a respected figure in the community with lofty goals and the ambition to achieve them. Along the way, he has some rather bizarre experiences with girls but never quite learns to understand them and completely fails to recognize the signals from the one who idolizes him. He does learn the value of being friends with influential people and actually becomes one himself.