After falling in love with and getting baptized because of a girl at his high school, Robert Collins serves a faithful mission only to receive a Dear John letter in his last month. He returns to his hometown where he builds a respectable life for himself, but he can never quite get over his lost love. Embittered by constantly seeing her and her husband in their wealthy, privileged life, he finally reaches a breaking point that forces him to reevaluate his relationship with himself and with God.