She knew his face. His touch. His voice. She knew everything about him ... But the truth.
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.
husband wife relationship
court case
war veteran
ku klux klan
southern usa
village life
return
peasant
suspicion of murder
gallows
violent husband
death sentence
agriculture
racial segregation
based on true story
look-alike
impostor
hanging
post civil war
soldier's wife
reconstruction era