A literate young hillbilly plans to attend college to learn about chivalry and escape the brutal, rigid mountain society with the love of his life, but his tyrannical father interferes.

A young boy named Rob Warwick reads chivalrous books about how women should be treated better than how he grew up in the mountains. He goes to the city to get an education. While he is away, his father and a close neighbor friend have made his life change drastically. Rob must defeat is personal demons (or someone else must) for him to be free of the stereotypical life of a mountain hillbilly.