George an his large simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters with nothing in the world excepty each other-and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own somewhere to settle and live in peace. Finding work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley they hope to stay long enought to gest some money together. But kind-hearted childlike Lennie is prone to getting into trouble-unable to control either his emotions or his enormous strengrh he is a target for the casual cruelty of others. And when disaster strikes again it seems that this time George mat not be able to save his friend...