A Kentucky woman fights for independence and identity in an “Ozzie & Harriet” society during the 50's & turbulent 60's.
Rural Kentucky, 1952 -- 18-year-old Lily Foster, the daughter of strict Southern Baptist parents, gets pregnant by town “bad boy” Jake Tatlow. For Lily, life isn’t the “happy days” of The Fonz and Richie Cunningham. She finds herself married at 19 to a man who doesn’t want to be a husband, who feels he was trapped into marriage when he should be out drinking and carousing with women. But Lily is the one who is really trapped. Conventions of the day—and the rigid society of ultra-religious rural Kentucky--forbid divorce, and even if it were possible, one major obstacle would stand in her way. Lily loves Jake—always has, since they were children playing in the woods on adjoining properties--and she’s convinced she can eventually make him love her. All it will take is desire and patience. Once the baby arrives, they will be the perfect little family.
From Lily’s home on Opal Springs Ridge to a four-year stint at an army base in New Boston, Texas, and finally, to life on their own in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Lily struggles to maintain a rocky marriage with a moody alcoholic husband while raising two daughters.