In this movie, a family of sharecroppers, the Weavers, struggle to make ends meet and share their story of hardship with their landlord. However, they soon discover that he too is facing financial difficulties, and his family life is complicated by a lazy son and a wife seeking a divorce. The landlord then asks the Weavers to switch places with him and sort out his problems.
In Old Missouri
Struggling sharecroppers, the Weaver family, face financial difficulties alongside their landlord, whose own troubles stem from his idle son and his wife's desire for divorce, ultimately prompting him to propose a life swap with the family.