Abandoned by her husband, Flo shares her home with her two children, Millie (Madeleine Martin) and Madge (Maggie Grace), and a boarder, Rosemary (Elizabeth Marvel).
But Inge was very, very good, and he never wrote anything better than the soft-spoken story of Madge (Maggie Grace), a shy, pretty girl whose uncomplicated existence is upended when a handsome drifter named Hal (Sebastian Stan) passes through town and lures her into bed.