 Teenager Alison Watson is helping to promote a campaign to fight adult illiteracy in her town. Mr. Ruigh (Richard Roundtree) is teaching classes, and all the students are women. Alison s father Bill Watson (Edward Albert) works at a factory which will soon modernize, and workers will need to read and use computers on the job. Bill doesn t want his daughter pitching the literacy program to his workers, because he fears they will be targets of layoffs if supervisors realize they are illiterate.