John Denver plays the country singer son of Annie Nations (Jessica Tandy), a woman passionately committed to both her farmland in the
Blue Ridge Mountains and to the revered memory of her late husband, Hector (Hume Cronyn). Ultimately, she must make a life-changing decision, to accede to her son's wish that she move off the Mountain and sell her land to a real estate developer, or to spend her remaining years cloaked in her memories. According to Hume Cronyn, the older people living in the mountains led lives "which were to some degree narrow, parochial, insular - but also enormously rich. These pioneers carved both a living and a tough joyous way of life out of unwelcoming mountain soil". The character of Annie Nations is based on real-life
Arie Carpenter. "Aunt Arie" told young students who came to interview her, "They want me to sell an' move away from here, but I won't do it. It's just home - That's all". ==Cast==