 Set in a small town in Kansas during the days before the town s annual Fourth of July parade, this rural drama follows Rachel Kirby (Michael Learned) whose life is trown into turmoil when her estranged, drifter husband Matt (Frederic Forrest) returns after spending seven years in prison to ask her to let him be a part of her life again which also affects Rachel s teenage daughter Tilda (Rosanna Arquette) and Rachel s mother Sarah (Geraldine Page).