

Given the right chances one feels she could develop her real natural intelligence and make something out of her quite considerable beauty. The daughter is a girl of about 18 with great potentialities of charm. The son, about 10, has a job but not a very good one, and there are very few prospects for him in the small town. The father is a small and rather timid employee in the local bank. They are little people, leading unimportant little lives. In Hanford lives an unimportant little family of four - father, mother, daughter and son.

The story is set in the little town of Hanford in the San Joaquin Valley, a typical American small town almost lost between the desert and mountains.
