Truman Capote's semi-autobiographical first novel about coming of age in the Deep South during the 1930s centers on 13-year-old Joel Sansom (David Speck), who reunites with his estranged father at the family's shabby plantation, where he must contend with his father's feisty mistress and a strange cousin. Against this less-than-ideal backdrop, Joel slowly matures into an upstanding young man.

汉娜独自生活在遥远的英格兰北部诺福克海岸，这里的世界，50年内都没有什么变化...沼泽地、沙丘、松树林、绵长的海滩，还有孤独的房屋，都在开阔的天空之下。汉娜和他已故的丈夫在度过浪漫而诗意的大半生后，定居于此。她一个人在此享受着诗歌、花园，还有一位年轻英俊的朋友，乔。