While she and her little daughter Melody suffer with food shortage, they also are threatened by a creepy neighbor who has avoided military service.
Together with her daughter, Sarabeth decides to nurse him back to health and even hides him when several renegade soldiers of the Confederacy check the house.
Once Louis has sufficiently recovered, Sarabeth tries to ensure he is taken back to the Union lines with the help of two escaping slaves.
The movie shows the war's final days with a catastrophic attack at the farm that burns the family home to its foundations.
The Dove Foundation awarded the film their seal "Family-Approved" and considered it "well worth your viewing time".