Overview
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.
Cast
- Janet McTeer as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
- Michael Goodwin as Professor Wallace Aldrich, PhD
- Gregory Russell Cook as Fate Honeycutt
- Jane Adams as Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric
- E. Katherine Kerr as Harriet Tolliver
- Emmy Rossum as Deladis Slocumb
- Pat Carroll as Viney Butler
- Stephanie Roth Haberle as Alice Kincaid
- Aidan Quinn as Tom Bledsoe
- Bart Hansard as Hilliard