A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
Jon Voight
as Pat Conroy
Paul Winfield
as Mad Billy
Madge Sinclair
as Mrs. Scott
Tina Andrews
as Mary
Antonio Fargas
as Quickfellow
Ruth Attaway
as Edna
James O'Rear
as Messenger
Gracia Lee
as Mrs. Sellers
C.P. MacDonald
as Mr. Ryder
Jane Moreland
as Mrs. Webster
Thomas Horton
as Judge
Nancy Butler
as Mrs. Ryder
