1950s. A small town in Texas. Dwayne Jackson and Sonny Crawford are the stars of the local high school soccer team. Dwayne is aggressive and Sonny is quiet and sensitive. They are best friends.

In the town lives a mentally retarded boy Billy, he is cruelly bullied and teased by the regulars of the local movie theater. Sonny stands up for Billy and becomes his protector. And then - a friend and lover of Ruth Popper, suffering from loneliness wife of the school basketball coach. Sonny and Dwayne go to Mexico for a short time, where they have a raucous party, but when they return, they receive sad news.

A university graduate, unable to find a job in his specialty, accepts a position as a teacher at a school for troubled teenagers. Working at the school and sending out his resume in parallel, he eventually receives an invitation to the position of an engineer. But he does not leave immediately, but decides to bring the class to the end of the school year.

Robert Lee Pruitt is transferred to another unit after an accident. An able boxer, he refuses to enter the ring, because during a training fight he injured his friend, as a result of which he became blind.
However, for the army brass, sport is a good career tool, and Private Pruitt's refusal to enter the ring is seen as something very close to treason. It is this refusal that makes Pruitt a subversive element in the eyes of his superiors, especially Captain Homs. Among the many very colorful representatives of the garrison stand out, Private Angelo Maggio, who finds himself in a military prison, famous for its intransigence to troublemakers.
Sgt. Milton Warden, on the contrary, hating officers as an institution and as a sum of specific individuals, resists in his own way - impeccable knowledge of his duties and high professionalism, making him simply irreplaceable in the company. However, his revenge on his superiors takes quite concrete forms - he has an affair with his company commander's wife Karen Homs, who feels nothing but contempt for her husband.
However, neither Milton nor Karen have any illusions about the longevity of their affair, which nevertheless threatens to outgrow the framework of an ordinary affair and turn into a great, all-consuming love....
Only a few days pass and the seventh of December 1941 comes, when the Japanese Air Force launches a massive strike on the American military base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and on the fate of the heroes of this movie.

Ellie is going to marry the famous pilot King Westley, but her father despises him as a social idler, so he locks up his daughter and looks for reasons to annul the engagement. Ellie manages to escape, and she sets off to meet her soulmate in New York by bus. On the same bus is Peter, a reporter who has just been fired. He needs a scoop to repair his relationship with his editor. Fate smiles upon him in the person of a fugitive heiress of millions, who is being sought by the police all over the country.