Young Bobby O'Malley befriends a boy named Saul Pinsky and falls hard for Saul's older sister, the beautiful and troubled Meira. Bobby attempts to lure Meira out of her depression by coaxing her to accompany him as he goes in search of the elusive fairy Marigold. Set in the early 1970's, Marigold tells the story of one boy's coming of age as he discovers approaching adulthood means the loss of magic and the truth of first love.