Romance is blossoming in a small conservative Maryland town in the 1950s. Unfortunately it's between a clean cut high school student and a young, married, very religious girl who wears a mysterious gold chain around her neck. Both try to break free of this unlikely and forbidden attraction to each other.Jimmy immerses himself in his history books and Carol goes to church to seek guidance, none of those strategies seems to work too well to quell this attraction. Trouble is definitely brewing..