The filmed account of a poor woman, Darlene Musselman Myers, and her family in the Appalachian region of Pennsylvania.Begins with 1971 scenes from "Notes on an Appalachia county: visiting with Darlene" and "A day with Darlene", and continues the chronicle of almost twenty-five years in the lives of this poverty-stricken Pennsylvania Appalachian family through interviews conducted from 1983 to 1994 with Darlene, her children, her husband, and her companion.

Cast

Darlene Musselman Myers

Tracy L. Myers

Darlene's daughter

P.J. O'Connell

Narrator

Terese E. Hoover

Darlene's daughter

John Henry Myers

Darlene's husband