Brooklyn, 1927. Annie and Carl are so young and so in love. Everything is against their marriage: parents, friends, even the dean of the faculty where Carl studies. Marriage can ruin a life; love has never done anyone any good— that’s what everyone insists. But how could that be true when people genuinely love each other? When they’re young? When they have dreams? Annie and Carl are determined to overcome every hardship—deprivations, poverty—just to be together. Or can they overcome it precisely because they are together?