Overview

A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.

Details

Cast

Jon Voight

Paul Winfield

Madge Sinclair

Tina Andrews

Antonio Fargas

Ruth Attaway

James O'Rear

Gracia Lee

C.P. MacDonald

Jane Moreland