Tom Carter, who discovered after an accident in high school that he now had the ability to influence people, heads off to college, still trying to understand his new skills.
Brenda likes helping folks, likes making them happy. It might even be a bit of an obsession. Unfortunately, she has a former boyfriend who did not take their breakup well. An amateur hypnotist, he's left her with a compulsion to make people happy in a different way when she hears a trigger phrase. But Brenda encounters a stage hypnotist one night who sees that there's something off with her reaction to hypnosis, and starts digging. Soon the truth is uncovered and payback is quick in coming.
Kenny Walsh has finally met the love of his life, cute, bright Emma Conroy. She loves him, too, and has agreed to marry him. But Emma has been raised by strict parents, and will do nothing remotely sexual until they're married. His friends call her "Little Miss Prim". Kenny's friends warn him that women like that seldom become sexually adventurous after the "I do's". But Kenny's sure that everything will work out fine, sex-wise. You should be careful what you wish for.
Young Tom Carter, sixteen, average high school kid, goes out with friends to play some pickup ice hockey. But an accident sends him sprawling headfirst into a tree stump and some discarded, unlabeled cans. When he wakes up after a week in the hospital he finds that he has acquired some new talents. We follow Carter through high school as he learns what he can do with these new skills, and what he can't. His experimentation shows that he is able to make girls very, very happy.
