Ione Muffett is alone in the summerhouse when she meets Ned Hump - a wacky student who is in love with her professor fathers secretary Caroline. In a zany and uninhibited twenty-four hours Ione helps bring the two together culminating in a wonderfully anarchic picnic. And as Ned then helps Ione with her plan to help famine victims by running a bring and buy sale Iones confidence in herself slowly begins to grow . . .