In the tradition of NELL (1994) and JOHNNY BELINDA (1948), this made-for-TV, three-handkerchief drama of innocence abused reaffirms the power of love. Small-town mountain teenager Sammy Perkins (William McNamara) sees a college scholarship as his ticket out of the insular community. Sammy's widowed father, Jack (Beau Bridges), doesn't see why Sammy won't accept the laborer's life that was good enough for him. Sammy's younger sister, Ellie (Reese Witherspoon), supports Sammy's ambitions, but finds another outlet for for her boundless energies. While trespassing on property belonging reclusive hill folks, Ellie discovers an abused teenager, Alice Guthrie (Patricia Arqu...