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A child is blamed when a treasured porcelain figure vanishes from a plantation home.
An artist wants to sketch a Cajun fisherman, but the man's daughter worries how strangers will portray him.
A farmer goes to a country ball to escape indecision about marriage and meets a woman with plans of her own.
A New Orleans agent visits a Louisiana plantation and grows close to a woman already engaged to a local painter.
With her brother sick and her father avoiding work, Lolotte takes a cotton delivery into her own hands.
With Christmas near, a plantation household searches in the rain for three missing turkeys.
Fifine takes her father's old fiddle to a plantation party, hoping it can help feed her family.
Hearing that his former love is struggling, Doudouce travels to see her and her family.
A boy shelters an injured wanderer while his Louisiana family faces losing the money for his schooling.
On Easter morning, three children take flowers from a recluse's hill, drawing him back toward the village.
At a Cajun ball, a farmer watches the woman he loves draw the attention of a wealthy planter.
A new wife leaves her husband to find a life she can choose for herself.
A plantation store clerk grows attached to a young woman whose family depends on the planter's credit.
A woman who has feared crossing the bayou since childhood must help a boy hurt on her side of it.
After saving for months, two twelve-year-old twins walk into town to buy their first shoes.
A stopped train brings strangers to Caline's rural home, leaving her curious about the world beyond it.
A young man is pushed out of the only home he has known after his guardian dies.
A teenage mail carrier stops at a dance and finds that his horse and mailbag have vanished.
A traveler finds an old acquaintance trapped in an abusive marriage in a remote Louisiana cabin.
A planter's challenge to a segregated school sends its teacher to New Orleans, where their conflict follows her.
Sent to work for a Louisiana family, a young Indigenous woman longs for the woods but grows attached to their baby.
At Easter, a carpenter notices a poor young woman whom the village has overlooked.
A wet and hungry prankster turns up at a lonely doctor's door during a storm.
On her way to Mass, a girl stays with an elderly neighbor whom no one else can tend.
