A boy leaves home and joins the Navy, because he is in love with his mother. He returns a man to find his mother and little sister are in love with him. They become the perfect family.
A man recounts his first time a long time ago when only a boy. The experience made an indelible impression on him which he always recalls with pleasure and appreciation for the educational school system.
Despite the difference in their ages a widower finds love with his young neighbour, Elizabeth. After his death, she in turn finds happiness with a young man, Robert, who she meets when she knocks him off his motor-bike. When she knows she is dying she grooms a replacement. But Sarah is young and there are many problems in the restrictive English university of the 1970's where he is her tutor. Will Robert and Sarah find happiness? The matter is in doubt right up to the end.
Add 'em up. Redhead, freckles, breasts, multiple partners, memories, humour, dialogue... what more could you want? I said about the freckles, right? :-)