The widow of the young father is left virtually penniless. She is about to lose her home through foreclosure. Valiantly she struggles to keep her home and the crop of cotton on which everything depended. A drifter, an unemployed black man named Moses, helps her harvest her cotton and salvage her farm.

Eventually, though, Moses is run out of town by the Klan. This was instigated by the gin operator who didn't appreciate the shrewd business advice Moses had given the widow. There are other characters in the movie including a couple who are tragically torn apart by infidelity.

In the closing moments of the film the congregation is gathered for worship. The pastor has just finished reading 1 Corinthians 13. The elements of the Holy Communion are being passed through the congregation. As the people take the bread and the cup, suddenly you become aware of the fact that this is no ordinary congregation. The camera zooms in. There is the widow and there is Moses, who has been run out of town. The widow's dead husband is there, as well as the young man who shot him. Even the banker who is about to foreclose on the mortgage and the cotton gin operator are there. Members of the Klan are there. Also, black tenant farmers. The couple whose marriage had been torn are there, reconciled. It is as if to say, here is the one place where there is healing. Here is the one place where there is room for all. Here is the one place where there is food. Here is the one place where there is life! Here is where we are a family. Here is where we can reach out and touch one another.

Ron Newhouse