Splendor in the Grass

In 1928, In Southeast Kansas, the teenage sweethearts Wilma Dean "Deanie" Loomis and Bud Stamper are deeply in love for each other. However, Deanie dodges from Bud's sexual advances since her mother advises her to keep her virginity and reputation unharmed. Bud's father, the oil tycoon Ace Stamper, also advises Bud to give time to Deanie since he plans that his son goes to Yale. Further, he tells him to date easy girls, instead of Deanie. Meanwhile. Bud's sister Ginny Stamper returns from Chicago with bad fame and rumors of an abortion from a married man. When Ginny is gang raped at a New Year's party, the disturbed Bud breaks up with Deanie. Then Bud's pal Allen "Toots" Tuttle invites Deanie to go to a party and she accepts to date him. She sees Bud and tries to convince him to have sex with her, but he refuses. She leaves the party with Toots, and he parks his car near a waterfall to have sex with Deanie. However, she flees and tries to commit suicide, jumping into a small lake to reach a waterfall, but she is rescued. Her parents sell their oil stock to pay an expensive mental institution for Deanie in Wichita. Soon there is the Crash of 1929 followed by the Great Depression. Deanie stays for two and half years institutionalized, where she befriends Johnny Masterson, who is a medical student, while Bud fails in Yale and befriends the waitress Angelina while his father loses his fortune. Will Deanie and Bud meet each other again?