Morgan Bigley, a well-to-do Southern lawyer, is left with two young daughters to raise after his wife, Emily, is killed in an automobile accident in 1934. With the help of a new housekeeper, Miss Mattie, and a loving nurse, Viola, he attempts to bring the girls up according to the standards of the old South. Josy, the older girl, is a gutsy beauty who shares her father's love of the outdoor life. Agnes, the younger daughter, is a born iconoclast whose questions roil the certainties of Morgan's traditional values. In the process of healing, Morgan strives to regain the happy, easy-going...