Mrs. Levine and her students have been invited by Mayor Johnson to sing at the Lilac Festival in Rochester's Highland Park. A feud between best friends, Janie and Jeanetta, spills over into the classroom, and a well-planned field trip ends in chaos as an unexpected visitor shows up. Meanwhile the students' benefactress, Granny Rob, uses some White Lilacs Perfume to set in motion a nursing home romance.