Following the Second World War, a cannery company from the north talks about buying a lot of land in Georgia that hasn't been farmed. There is a lot of land that is owned by Julie Ann Warren. Her dishonest husband, Henry, has already had the right to buy it. Rad McDowell, Henry's cousin, is a war veteran who has a wife and family. Reeve Scott, Julie's childhood Mammy, is a young black man whose mother was her Mammy. But Rad and Reeve don't want to sell, so they form an unusual black and white partnership to improve their land. As angry as he is at the way things have turned out, Henry is still going to push through the big land deal. He also tries to get his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of the land he owns because he thinks the bigoted judge will rule against a Negro.
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Following the Second World War, a cannery company from the north talks about buying a lot of land in Georgia that hasn't been farmed. There is a lot of land that is owned by Julie Ann Warren. Her dishonest husband, Henry, has already had the right to buy it. Rad McDowell, Henry's cousin, is a war veteran who has a wife and family. Reeve Scott, Julie's childhood Mammy, is a young black man whose mother was her Mammy. But Rad and Reeve don't want to sell, so they form an unusual black and white partnership to improve their land. As angry as he is at the way things have turned out, Henry is still going to push through the big land deal. He also tries to get his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of the land he owns because he thinks the bigoted judge will rule against a Negro.
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