Released:
2001-03-01

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.

Director:
Maggie Greenwald

Runtime:
1h 49min

Genre:
Drama, Music

• 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