A young rural couple face nature's greatest ravages, the threat of poverty and a wrenching separation in this moving tribute to love, faith, determination and the vanishing America of the independent farm family. Tom and Mae Garvey are struggling to keep their homestead safe from the local power authority who wants to flood their land. When Mae's former beau, John Wade, turns out to be in charge of the plan to acquire the property, tensions run high, climaxing in a devastating confrontation on the flooded riverbanks. © 1984 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.