Obion Summer

Teenager Pam Ackerman is looking forward to the promising life she sees before her. She loves her hometown and parents, and her father's career as an attorney has set the family up with a comfortable life of opportunity.

Then the unthinkable happens: her father abandons the family. While her mother scrambles to earn a living, Pam is sent to a tiny Tennessee town for the summer. Heartbroken and feeling uncertain in her new environment, Pam doesn't know how she'll survive till fall to see her ...