The Gradys, a Midwestern family, inherit a bayfront California hotel. Mickey Rooney stars as Mickey Grady, a lifelong landlocked Nebraskan who sees the Pacific Ocean for the first time when he and his family drive out to look over the bay-front hotel he inherited. Sammee Tong plays the hotel manager who was included in the inheritance. Emmaline Henry plays Mickey's wife; real-life son Tim Rooney and Brian Nash, the sons.