When Gus Stewart's wife announces that she wants to divorce him, he starts thinking about committing suicide. His 14-year-old son Alex notices this and desperately tries to prevent him from doing so and to give his father a reason to live.
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.
Josie Minick (Doris Day) é uma viúva, que é forçado a cuidar de si mesma. Josie, que vive em um país de gado, se vê na probabilidade de entrar em guerra com os pecuaristas da cidade quando ela decide fazer uma criação de ovelhas para seu sustento.