Addie Hatfield wants to become a schoolteacher. While other girls are looking for beaus and talking about marriage, she studies. That is until she finds Jake Lydell lying in her parents pasture, bleeding from a gunshot wound. When bullets shatter the bedroom window, Addie is fighting to keep Jake alive, but she does not know he is a bootlegger from Arkansas. Gradually he tells her about his life. Will Addie and Jake have the courage to fight for their love?