Reggie, a high school senior, had fallen in love with Marie, who is deaf, and both assume that they will marry after graduation. Committed Christians, they indulge in heavy petting but not actual sex. One frigid, snowy night after a session that has made him pretty frustrated, he drives his car into a ditch. As it is unlikely that anybody will come by, he decides to walk home. Surprisingly, a car arrives, and the ladies inside offer him a lift, and then rape him.
Reggie suffers all the usual psychological trauma of rape victims, is horrified about his failure to stop the rape, and ashamed that his body responded, decides that he is a miserable specimen of a man, and withdraws into himself, dropping Marie without notice. Marie is devastated, but made strong by her life with a disability, proactively finds out what happened and persuades Reggie that being raped is not a crime or a mistake, which helps him, and they resume their romance.
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