After Matt Larkin (Andrew McCarthy) announces his engagement to a beautiful debutante, his best friend takes him off to the country for one last bachelor bash at the home of a friend (Patti D'Arbanville). There, Matt meets Jewel (Molly Ringwald) and is immediately attracted to her rare, sensual beauty and simple, rural ways. Although Matt and Jewel have little in common, they are drawn to one another and begin a passionate relationship that unites their very different worlds and blows apart Matt's previously "safe" existence forever.