A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.

• 20th Century Fox
• Jon Voight
• Paul Winfield
• Madge Sinclair
• Tina Andrews
• Antonio Fargas
• Ruth Attaway
• James O'Rear
• Gracia Lee