乔迪(艾娃·科塔 Ava Cota 饰)在校园中一直都是引人注目的存在,并不是因为她有多优秀,而是因为她的个子实在是太高了。因为自己的身高,乔迪感到非常的自卑,却又无力改变这一事实。就这样,在逃避和躲藏中,乔迪度过了16年的时光,在这个节骨眼上,一个名叫斯蒂格(卢克·艾斯纳 Luke Eisner 饰)的男孩出现在了她的视野里,这是乔迪第一次在校园里遇见比她还要高的男孩,因此斯蒂格的出现一下子就抓住了乔迪的心。
在好友杰克(格里芬·格鲁克 Griffin Gluck 饰)和弗里达(安杰利卡·华盛顿 Anjelika Washington 饰)的帮助下,乔迪开始想方设法的吸引斯蒂格的注意。在此过程中,她也渐渐找回了属于自己的自信。
This is commonly known as Jean Renoir's first American film (1941), although Renoir scholar Alexander Sesonske has established that Renoir's creative role in the project was severely hampered by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and that he didn't regard much of the film as his own. (The ending, for instance, was written by Zanuck and directed by Irving Pichel.) Nevertheless, the film has certain beauties and pleasures. Part of it was shot in Georgia's Okefenokee swamp, and the treatment of the small community living ~Censored~ is often pungent and distinctive.