A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
Key credits listed on this page include Martin Ritt, Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch, Pat Conroy, Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, and Tina Andrews.