NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN GARRETT HEDLUND & MARY J BLIGEWhen Henry Mc Allan moves his city-bred wife Laura to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946 she finds herself in a place both foreign & frightening Henry's love of rural life is not shared by Laura who struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack under the eye of her hateful racist father-in-law When it rains the waters rise up & swallow the bridge to town stranding the family in a sea of mud As the Second World War shudders to an end two young men return from Europe to help work the farm Jamie Mc Allan is everything his older brother Henry is not & is sensitive to Laura's plight but also haunted by his memories of combat Ronsel Jackson eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the farm comes home from war with the shine of a hero only to face far more dangerous battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen These two unlikely friends become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale