Chad Gates has just been discharged from the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies and his girlfriend.

While Rafe Anchors longs to marry the daughter of his father's sworn enemy, his father is being pressured into marriage by a sexy, shady gold-digger closer to Rafe's age.

After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson gives new meaning to the term "concerned parent." Reading Mollie's letters describing her counter-culture experiences and beatnik friends, Frank eventually grows so paranoid that he boards a plane to Paris to see firsthand the kind of lessons his daughter is learning with her new artist amour.

Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.