Synopsis: After she receives the umpteenth beating from her boyfriend, a woman leaves him, taking her adolescent daughter with her. She requests the government assistance service to provide them a home out of Iowa (where she has been living up to then), but while she waits for it to be ready she has to find somewhere else to stay; she goes to Wyoming where her estranged father-in-law lives in a ranch and asks to stay there for a brief period. Things are not so easy though, since the old man, who lives with an old employee who is semi-invalid from a bear attack, blames her for the death of his son in a car accident.
Appraisal: Routine family drama that follows the old formula for this kind of film; it is well acted, and, within its severely constrained limits, it maintains a minimum level of intelligence, without resorting to excessively artificial or phony scenes.
Rating: 40
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