A young girl and her brother stay with their grandmother while their mother works at night.

A rainstorm sends a family from their long-awaited first house, with all of its leaks, onto the sleeping porch to enjoy the pleasures of the summer night.

A girl named Cricket describes the effects on the people of the small town of Bean, Pennsylvania, when they learn that someone from the moving pictures is coming to their town to look for a person to be in a picture show.