Three sisters aged between seven and 15, who live alone as their mother vanishes for whole swathes of time, and when social services demand a family meeting, the eldest sister, Laura, plans to find a stand-in for their mother....
The son of a sheriff falls in love with runaway bootlegger's daughter in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky. After discovering a dark family secret, he is forced to choose between protecting his father or saving the girl he loves....