1932: thrown off a Texas train, a tramp wanders to a decrepit Bible Belt Texas ranch where the hobo is rudely received by a widow and her son. Mutual trust is essential to face the Great Depression, severe drought that is becoming a dust bowl, and a powerful rancher who delights in torment. The tramp's confidence and self-respect, already shaken by a serious war wound then stripped when he stumbled home to shocking horror, is reborn. He contacts relatives in Virginia and is urgently summoned home to face a crisis. While he's gone his new Texas family is staggered. He rushes back to focus recent, unanticipated resources on man-made and natural onslaughts. They find great strength in one another: but, how much can they take?
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