Just as a young woman finishes college her father dies leaving her money she didn't realize he had. Her one wish was to have a kit car built. She discovers a man who has a motorcycle shop put the car together the best. She goes to persuade him and is so stuck by him she can barely talk. He thinks the kit will be paid by the last money her father had, a sort of remembrance. She is afraid to tell him she has 1.5 million dollars. He might lose what she doesn't even have yet. Then she learns the money was kept to help people in need in the small town of Rush. Other characters add to the story as they affect the couple's mindsets.