Twenty-three-year-old Joey Drayton returns home from her vocation on Hawaii. She brings a man with her – thirty-seven-year-old John Prentice. John is a very promising doctor. These two have met just few days ago and fell in love with each other. They have decided to get married and came to San Francisco to tell Joey’s parents. The main problem is that John is black, while Joey is white.
Joey, due to her youth and idealism, does not see a problem in the skin color at all, does not even suppose a possibility of the existence of such a problem. She treats the situation with no peculiar pondering, while John, being more sophisticated and more aware of prejudice, thinks that a problem might exist.
Joey’s parents are rather confused and surprised when their daughter introduces John as her future husband. Both Matt and Christina Drayton have brought up their daughter with a thought that skin color is not a trait a person is to be judged by, but they never thought their daughter might marry a person of other race, so it seems a problem with them. Though Christina is less objective, as it is her daughter’s happiness that matters to her, Matt shows more objection. At the same time John, with not Joey’s knowing, tells Mr. and Mrs. Drayton, that he understands all the difficulties that might occur, and will not marry their daughter if they both do not agree to this marriage.
Meanwhile Joey invites John’s parents to a dinner. They don’t know either that their future daughter-in-law is white person so show no less surprise. John’s father is against this marriage as well as Joey’s.
Before the dinner John’s mother has a conversation with Joey’s father, and tells him to remember about the feelings of their children. Mr. Drayton, after some consideration, comes to a conclusion that he was really mistaken when decided to object against the marriage of his daughter, as there really is no more important thing than love.
The family evening ends with a pleasant dinner.
