A wounded Union soldier is given refuge in a girls' boarding school in the Confederate south during the American Civil War. However, his presence provokes jealousy and deceit in the students and teachers, and in an atmosphere of emotional and sexual repression they succumb to his overt masculinity and arts of seduction. Drama, starring Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman and Jo Ann Harris.

Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.