When Henry McAllan moves his citybred wife Laura to a cotton farm in theMississippi Delta in 1946 she finds herself in a place both foreign andfrightening. Henr... » 

When Henry McAllan moves his citybred wife Laura to a cotton farm in theMississippi Delta in 1946 she finds herself in a place both foreign andfrightening. Henrys love of rural life is not shared by Laura who strugglesto raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack under the eye ofher hateful racist fatherinlaw. «