This is a most unconventional love story between Jimmy Owens, a Baptist boy living in the small Southern town of Fauberg, and young Clare Banning, a quantum physics prodigy and socialite heiress. Through their time together in Fauberg and later in her family's New York City home, Jimmy's intellect is awakened as he is swept up into Clare's world. Conflicted by a deep love for his parents, and a desire for popularity among his peers, Jimmy drifts apart from her. It will take a major change in his world to face the reality of their time together. He may begin to allow his heart to understand what he knew about Clare.