When the story begins, 16-year-old July and 17-year-old Bo Jo are high school seniors preparing for college.

Although July is not certain of her feelings for Bo Jo, she likes him more than other boys she has dated, and the couple continues to see each other exclusively.

July learns she is pregnant just as Bo Jo receives his letter of acceptance and football scholarship from Georgia Tech.

July and Bo Jo soon find themselves missing their old life of school, football, and social events, and begin to bicker with each other and spend time apart.

July also meets and bonds with another young teenage bride, Lou, who is an aspiring singer and actress recently married to an older man.

But Bo Jo and July realize that their shared grief over the lost baby has brought them closer together, and now they are truly in love and do not want to break up.

Three years later, Bo Jo is attending college, living in the married students' housing with his wife July, who works in the bursar's office to help pay their expenses.

Starring Desi Arnaz Jr. and Christopher Norris, it first aired on Tuesday, November 16, 1971 as the ABC Movie of the Week, and was the second-most watched primetime television show in the United States for the week[6][9] being the third most watched movie on U.S. television during 1971 after ABC's Brian's Song and CBS's A Death of Innocence with a Nielsen rating of 30.2 and an audience share of 45%.