Summer Heat is a 1987 film drama written and directed by Michie Gleason, with a screenplay by Michie Gleason based on the novel Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail by Louise Shivers.

In rural North Carolina in the post-Depression late 1930s, Roxy Walston is only 17 when she marries a boy she knows, Aaron.

They have a child (called Baby) and live and work on a farm that raises tobacco.

Roxy's father, who operates a mortuary, sends a young drifter named Jack Ruffin their way to be a farmhand.

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