一枚戒指記錄美麗少女艾瑟（雪莉·麥克恩 Shirley MacLaine 飾）和英俊男孩泰（斯蒂芬·阿爾 Stephen Amell 飾）之間真摯而又純潔的情，不久之后泰迪受命要去成一次飛行任，臨走之際，將深愛的女人付給了兩人共的朋友杰克（里斯托弗·普默 Christopher Plummer 飾）。泰迪的一去不回傷透艾瑟爾的心，得知愛人再也法回到自己的邊后，心碎的嫁給了杰克。 一轉眼，五年過去了，此的艾瑟爾已經為了母親，可她和女兒瑪麗內芙·坎貝爾 Neve Campbell 飾）之間的關卻并不融洽。么多年里，艾爾一直都沒有記泰迪，但她是將這強烈的情深深的埋藏心底。一個陌的青年帶來了枚曾經記錄著瑟爾和泰迪之言的戒指，而著戒指的失而得，艾瑟爾內的情感終于爆了?
One of the five sci-fi's I remember every single detail of from my earliest days as a fan. For the genre, I think it's considerably above average. The moor is nicely atmospheric. There's one of every character in the book: the good guy, the bad guy, the local sheriff, the lovely damsel, her father the old professor, etc. The scene where we're looking for the first time through the window of the ship and the visitor peeks out from the other side is easily as good as the three-fingered-hand-on-the-shoulder in War of the Worlds. Nice"character" to the visitor, for whom, like Karloff's Frankenstein, we end up feeling some empathy .
