A determined young woman, crippled with a severe hunchback, will stop at nothing to fulfill her dream of seeing the world. This is the story of how she finds happiness.

The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost?

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

What happens when the Gummer Gooseberry Bubble Girl boards a train with the Gummer Gooseberry heir, the president of the company, and a convicted murderer?

After a lusty sexual affair leaves a family divided and a father devastated, Henrietta ( Alice McAllister ) must do what she can to hold on to what little stability her family has left. Along the way, the family encounters a diverse and colorful cast of burnouts and hippies, deviants and rejects, thrown mercilessly into the mysterious and maddening misfortunes of Reedville, Texas