They're young, just barely old enough to be starting out on their lives as adults, living outside Chicago. Joe and Dale Parker are brothers, but you'd never know it. Dale's best friend, Adam Bergman, is Jewish, but Adam's girlfriend, Catherine Tancred, has German-born parents who don't know that or the war in Europe wouldn't be the only fighting going on. For now the war is a growing storm cloud on the horizon that hasn't really affected any of them -- yet. Things like dating, college, racing fast cars, and friendship are what their lives are about. Until Dale meets a girl who takes his breath away and makes him forget everyone and everything else. She's everything he's ever dreamed about and she seems to feel the same way about him. Then her very jealous, powerfully connected husband finds out about their affair and promises to get his revenge.