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Crich mentioned the obvious plot 'boy meets girl'. I thought that you might be interested to know that there was a Stalinist twist on this one, during the period of the First Five-Year Plan (1928-32... yes, it's only 4 years!). This was when the USSR state was pushing very hard for rapid industrialisation of all sectors, particularly agriculture, and every resource was being mobilized, including writers. The official literary doctrine was 'socialist realism', which meant showing Marxist principles through literature. Not a bad idea in itself, but under Stalin it was given a particularly brutal and crude interpretation.
The result?
'Boy meets tractor.'
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