Anney is a woman who has a lot of pride. She doesn't want her daughter Ruth Anne, nicknamed 'Bone' to be known as a bastard child, because the father up and left her, before the baby was even born. She marries the perfect man when Bone is around three, but he dies in a terrible accident, leaving her child fatherless again. Now Anney has two children, and no father or husband, so her brother sets her up with Glen, a no good man.
This movie is a little scary to watch when you're as young as I was when I first saw it, but the actors play their parts very well, bringing together this amazing story.