"While hiking the back roads of a North Carolina hamlet, Raymond Toker (Henry Thomas) finds an abandoned baby. Toker decides to rear the infant himself when no one in town claims the tyke. His decision soon becomes a bone of contention for Josephine Priddy (Cara Seymour) -- a local beauty who loves Toker but not the baby. The arrival of enigmatic huckster Truman Lester (David Strathairn) begins to shed light on the child's identity."