[1] In the Prohibition era, the late 1920s, in the backwoods country of Florida, Mattie, an independent, middle-aged, pipe-smoking widow, lives alone.
The girl appears very innocent, and Mattie is also angry at Trax for eagerly exploiting such a young woman, and realizes she has similarly been taken in by his charm.
She tells the girl to leave, go away and follow him, but Gal Young-Un replies: "He don't want me" and sits on Mattie's porch until she finally invites her in and gives her supper.
The film was based on a 1932 short story by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings[2] and shot entirely in Florida.
[4] The New Statesman called it a "gem of a film"[5] while Emanuel Levy said it "helped shape regional cinema within the independent movement".