Caressed 1964 Tom is a working class student in his last year at high school, and hopes to win a scholarship to the university He and his friend Bill are obsessed with watching women, and blame their lack of success in seducing them on not having a car Tom studies with the rather plain Cathy, but there is a casual camaraderie between them Tom goes steady with the buxom Elaine, but never gets very far with her, as she is saving herself for marriage Eventually Elaine persuades Tom to propose Meanwhile, Cathy and Toms playfulness goes too far, and she becomes pregnant Bills friends threaten to say that they all had sex with Cathy, if she forces Tom into marriage