George promises never to tell anyone about the mistake.The film moves ahead to the summer of 1928.George has grown up into adulthood and as a young man, he finally has his chance to get out of tiny Bedford Falls before entering college...when I""m in town.And I""m in town, as any fool can see." Not easily provoked, Macreedy knows one thing for certain - he is unable to find assistance of any kind and wonders darkly why everyone is so hostile to him:Well I know that, uh, ever since I got off the rain, that everybody""s been needlin"" me.That""s the point.Smith: The point is, what you don""t know won""t hurt you.Sheriff: Maybe there""s something that I ought to know.Maybe here""s something that I ought to ask you before the stranger comes back here and starts breathing down my neck.Now you tell your people to back off.Don""t you go being a smart Kaffir.Maybe we let you live, huh?" [Kaffir was an offensive racial slur - a South African term for a black person.Plot SynopsisThe film opens, during the title credits, with two voice-over narrations - the first from American newspaper correspondent,New York Timesreporter Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston), to introduce he main character and his life-changing companion:"Cambodia.