A sheriff's wife in Depression-era Texas finds herself struggling to cope when her husband is killed, leaving her to support her two children alone. However, a wandering black labourer in search of work turns their fortunes around with a plan to plant cotton on the family farm. Drama, starring Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malkovich and Ed Harris.

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.