George Middlebrooks is a young man who inherited from his deceased parents an old house and ten acres in the country. He decides to live in it even though it has no running water or electricity. But there is a spring on the property. And he has interesting neighbors: a Black couple, Benny and Miranda, who become close friends, and a fair skinned girl with red hair named Dee he falls in love with. The way he chooses to live brings profound changes to his life and the lives of his friends.