Shadrach

One Man's Journey Changed Another Man's Heart.

Struggling to feed their teeming brood and keep beer in the icebox as the country endures the Great Depression, the Dabneys have not forgotten that their run-down farm once numbered among the South's richest tobacco plantations. Still, they never expected the obligations of their ancestors to become their own-until the arrival of an aged black man. He has walked all the way from Alabama with little more than the clothes on his back, a stick in his hand, and one last wish in his heart.