After returning home from the Korean War, two young men search for love and fulfillment in middle America.

In 1954, the photographer GI Sonny Burns and the soldier Gunner Casselman meet each other in a train to Indianapolis after serving in the Korea War. Gunner is a popular athlete, but befriends the shy Sonny and soon they become best friends. Sonny has an overprotective mother, Alma Burns, that dominates also his father Elwood Burns, and a sweetheart, Buddy Porte, while Gunner has a sexy mother, Nina Casselman, and dates the hot Deedee. Sonny starts to teach photography to Gunner, but when they meet the Arts student Marty Pilcher in a museum, Gunner falls for her. But she lives and study in New York.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil