A desperate widow, Edna Spalding, struggles to keep her farm afloat during the Great Depression after her husband's untimely death. With the help of a kind-hearted black man, Moses, and a blind war veteran, Mr. Will, she battles against the elements and her own poverty to secure her family's future.

Places in the Heart
Set in 1930s central Texas, a determined widow and her two children struggle to preserve their 40-acre farm, finding unexpected allies in a blind boarder and a traveling handyman of African American descent.