Directed by William Beaudine, it stars Colleen Townsend, Tom Powers, Sarah Padden, and Regis Toomey.
The story is set in the fictional town of Fairview and depicts the friction between the middle-class residents and the impoverished migrants who live on the outskirts in a shantytown called "The Patch".
Ken Keeler (Tom Powers), a prominent attorney, believes along with other leading citizens of Fairview that the families of "The Patch", a migrant shantytown on the outskirts of the town, should not be encouraged to stay.
Ken's daughter Sallie (Colleen Townsend), a member of a church youth group that conducts classes for the migrants and fights for their rights, insists that the town should reach out and help their poorer neighbors like good Christians, but hers is a lone voice.
The mother, Ma Ashby (Sarah Padden), is hopeful about her husband finding work and the family becoming part of the community, but they are shunned by the townsfolk and taken advantage of by the owner of the dilapidated shack.
After the service, Ken accepts a ride from Christian missionary Dave Harley (Regis Toomey), who takes him on a trip of discovery to show him what is really happening in America of 1950.
He shows Ken the squalid shantytown and also the acres of shiny new housing developments built for the huge numbers of people seeking to put down roots.
Back at the Keeler home, Ken's son Kenny (Larry Olsen) invites his new friend Nathaniel Ashby (Jimmy Hunt) to join his baseball team, but his teammates make fun of the migrant boy and Kenny's older brother Malcolm (Larry Carr) throws Nathaniel off their premises.
He reported that the film's technical director, Dr. Frederick Thorne, an ordained Presbyterian minister, had personally traveled to a migrant shantytown in Bakersfield, California, and lived among the residents in order to provide factual details for the script.
At least half of Hollywood's sub-par product, in my opinion, can be charged off to the fact that the screenplays are written by men who have had little or no personal experience with the conditions about which they are obliged to write".
It elaborated: Churchgoers are not fighting barriers of hate, suspicion, fear of economic competition, mountains of exploitation, race prejudice and other powerful, if not physical, obstacles new pioneers face....
But if the American dream is to be fought for and maintained, obstacles must be overcome by restoring to all belief in the church-contributed spiritual base of the dream—belief in equal rights, freedom and dignity of all individuals as children of God.