Professor Andrew Everest's quiet strength, distinguished gallantry, And dashing good looks draw Carrie like a flower to sunlight. Her uninhibited spirit and celebration of life fire Andrew's passion. Though their marriage shocks their friends and defies family convention, the newlyweds are blissfully unconcerned. But can a fervent social activist survive on her husband's conservative college campus? Rumbles of disapproval become thunderclaps of outrage when Carrie's women's group challenges the college's tradition-bound tenure system. Suddenly Andrew's career is at stake, husband is pitted against wife, and chaos reigns both on campus ... and in the most intimate corners of their lives!