A private boy's school opts to become mixed, and male students must adjust to the presence of new female students.

Lillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). However, Lillie soon finds herself at odds with Jude and the mission’s founder, Woodruff, when she falls for the titular military man, Ismail, just as the war is about to erupt.

There is a change when three friends living in the neighborhood continue their ordinary lives. The emergence of a mysterious stranger who has just moved to the neighborhood has also changed the life of the third.