Emma Parker is a 16-year-old girl living in one of only two remaining houses of what used to be a busy sawmill community in Central Louisiana. Her mother is dead and her father, the most hated man in town, is a pitiful alcoholic. Lacking in social graces and a mother's guiding hand, she is an outcast among most of the town's people. No one realizes she is a talented artist until this is noticed by Hugh Giles, a handsome member of a rich Texas oil...