Jim Conn, an average high school student, is assigned to tutor a girl in math. The girl is later to become Valerie Dumar, the actress. After graduation, Valerie goes off to become an actress and Jim goes to college. Jim then hears, on the news, that an airplane carrying a movie cast, including Valerie Dumar, crashed in the ocean off Mexico and all on board perished. Just before Christmas, Jim is about to get laid off from his job and he's at a low point in his life. Suddenly Valerie knocks on his door! Or does she? Valerie and Jim spend a few days in total romantic bliss. However, Valerie says that there must be no questions. After a time, Valerie grows dim, transparent and disappears, leaving only a medallion behind. A year later, Valerie speaks to Jim in a dream. Valerie is in a fishing village on the West coast of Mexico. She needs Jim and gives him the Spanish name of the village. Jim traces the name to a tiny fishing village in the Baja peninsula in Mexico. Jim gets a dune buggy and drives to the Mexican fishing village. He finds Valerie in a church in the fishing village. She was rescued by a fishing boat and is apparently the only survivor of the airplane crash. However, Valerie is mostly in some sort of coma. Valerie's medallion provides the link that revives Valerie. Valerie then tells Jim, "I have been in a very strange place. Not this church, although here too. I had to contact you. You were my only way ? back." Valerie and Jim then talk. Valerie can't explain what happened, or where she was. She does tell Jim that he was the only one that she could reach. Jim tells her, "Once I knew where you were, nothing was going to stop me from getting to you." Valerie thinks for a bit and says, "Maybe that's why you were the only one I could reach."