Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. And when they move to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.
Rocky Dennis is treated with pity, condescension, and disgust by much of the outside world because of a massive facial skull deformity. And the movie follows his attempts to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. And Ronny also falls for Loretta like a ton of bricks.