A young TVA administrator navigates rural Tennessee to oversee a dam project on the Tennessee River, facing opposition from locals, including a farmer who disapproves of the employment of black laborers. The story centers around the eviction of an elderly woman from her island home and the administrator's romance with the woman's widowed granddaughter.

Wild River
A stern TVA official takes bold action to relocate an elderly woman from her island home as the encroaching waters threaten to engulf her property.