Dusky and her brother Paul both attend a coeducational college in California. They are working their way through college by means of a small orange grove sold to them under an informal agreement by some elderly friends. When the elderly couple dies, no bill of sale can be found and the siblings risk losing the grove. The struggle for the grove forms a running accompaniment to Dusky's struggle for a high place in the university.
Dusky and her brother Paul both attend a coeducational college in California. They are working their way through college by means of a small orange grove sold to them under an informal agreement by some elderly friends. When the elderly couple dies, no bill of sale can be found and the siblings risk losing the grove. The struggle for the grove forms a running accompaniment to Dusky's struggle for a high place in the university.