Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter are high-school seniors in a small Connecticut town, and they are in love. Their immediate future involves attending Harvard after they graduate so they can be together. Then overachieving Jess is accepted into Harvard, but Max's application is deferred although he's accepted into five other colleges, the closest to Harvard being 300 miles away. They impulsively get engaged--Max's parents married young and seem happy. Meanwhile, Jess' parents are going through a nasty divorce--being older doesn't guarantee happy marriages. Their converse argument is that being young and in love will lead to a better marriage than Jess' parents. Max's parents like Jess and Jess' parents like Max, but the parents are split on whether to give their blessing to this marriage. It doesn't matter for 18-year-old of-age Max, but 17-year-old underage Jess needs the consent of at least one parent. If they are able to go through with the marriage, their options are to have a long-distance relationship, for Jess to forgo Harvard and attend one of Max's schools, or for Max to move to Boston and work his way into ultimately getting accepted to Harvard; they choose this last. Can their relationship withstand these pressures, will they be able to prove their naysayers wrong, or are they indeed too young and irresponsible to deal with the adult issues that go along with marriage?
—Huggo