In January of 1962, 29 East Berliners escaped to West Berlin via a tunnel they had dug beneath the Berlin Wall, led by Erwin Becker, a chauffeur in the car pool of the East Germany Parliament, who served as technical adviser on this film. The film opens with Karl Schroeder (Don Murray), chauffeur to an East German Major, seeing a friend killed as he tried to drive his truck through the wall, He is persuaded by the friend's sister, Erika Jurgens (Christine Kaufmann), and his own family to engineer an attempt to make an escape to the Western sector of the city by digging a tunnel under the wall which is close to their home. Their efforts to evade the suspicions of the East German police, their fear of betrayal by inquisitive neighbors and the exhaustion of the digging are only a few of the difficulties faced by the group.

Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggy. She's fascinated of his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf. Soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggy. 【内容简介】 迪扮演一个固执的小女孩，虽然身体有缺陷，可她仍然希望在原本只属于男孩的领土上冲浪。在穆恩·道吉（达伦饰）的鼓励下，搭乘这个男孩的冲浪板来到海上，她的双手伸开，做出了一个后来影片《泰坦尼克号》中最为著名的造型。当女孩喝下太多海水，已经灰心时，道吉将她带进他的海边小屋里，向她哼起了电影的主题歌，“Gidget是我的女孩。” 这是好莱坞第一部著名的冲浪题材电影。“冲浪也许不属于这个世界，你不能想象冲破巨浪时，所感受到的那种震撼。它超越了我曾经感受过的一切感情。”