![]() Lonnie, at loose ends, goes off to the rodeo and returns to find Grandad in a ditch, terribly injured, later to be shot in a "mercy killing". The cattle, infected, are shot and buried by bulldozers and the old man, too, dies inside. Many tensions erupt and when Helmea is raped by one of the men (a terrible, pitiful scene), she leaves and the household collapses. Lonnie, his grandson by the first marriage, likes Grandad, the land, life and its people, but is restless and lonely and ambiguously drawn to the easy-going Negro women, Helmea, who is the real mother of the household. Second wife Grandma complains and listens to the radio her vicious son is obsessed with town, care and women. On old-time cowboy Grandad's ranch, old and new generations are uneasily mixed. ![]() ![]() ![]() A simply told, warm, rather melancholy tale of changing times in the small ranch country of Texas. ![]()
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