A run-down area of Monterey, California serves as the setting for this unusual romantic comedy about two mismatched lovers. Doc is a reclusive marine researcher and former professional baseball player. Suzy is a scrappy, unpleasant vagabond who is incapable of finding work as a prostitute. When you add Cannery Row's band of resident alcoholic derelicts to the mix, you get fireworks, albeit not romantic ones.