Movie Description:
Until that September in 1952, Luke Chandler had never kepta secret or tolda single lie. But in that long, hot summer when 10 year old Luke Chandlercomes of age, two groups of migrant workers and two very dangerous men come through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenlymysteries flood Luke`s world. Amurder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman catchesLuke`s eye. A fatherless baby isborn, and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly bathing the run-downstructure in gleaming white. As young Luke watches the world around him, he shelters secrets that could shatterlives - and change his familyand his town forever.