
The film raises the contrast between the plain corrupted (the Low) and uncontaminated mountain (High Land). The protagonist, Manelic, a simple, primitive, Marta wants to marry a girl from the Low Country that until then had been forced to be intimate with his master, Sebastian.

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressure...

Mitch Buchannon, believed to have died in a boating accident...

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, ...