Art Leroldi is terminally irritable. He is a small-time Reno barber stuck in a rut of haircuts, hot dogs and horse books. He lives everyday same as the last. But when he is hit with the death of his business partner and friend, he faces losing the only thing in life he's got left - his barbershop. To keep the shop, he will have to hire the last person on earth he'd ever want - a woman named Gloria MacIntyre.

After being diagnosed with serious health issues, ex-cop Rose Jones (Cybill Shepherd), goes on a road trip in a wheelchair to search for her estranged son; along the way, she falls in love with Max (James Brolin), a handsome old cowboy.

A party boy from the West Coast is out of his element when he falls for a straitlaced girl from a small farm in the Midwest. Two different backgrounds collide as the two college co-ed's fall in love!