The Tender Land

About the show

As she prepares to graduate from high school on her family’s Midwestern farm, Laurie Moss meets itinerant workers Top and Martin. Laurie and Martin fall in love at her graduation party, but her grandfather orders the workers to leave. Martin hesitates to run away with Laurie and departs with Top. Laurie decides to leave home on her own, despite her mother and sister’s pleas.