17-åriga Rita växer upp i en överklassmiljö i Skåne under 1960-talet. En sommar förälskar sig hon i arbetarkillen Jimmi.
Seventeen year old Rita grows up in an upper-class Swedish seaside society in 1965, and is very close to her father, Gerhard. Rita rejects the boys from the tennis club, and prefers to go out with Jimmi in his laundry delivery van.