The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.
Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.