
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Monty Woolley
Colonel William G. Smollett

Lionel Barrymore
Clergyman

Robert Walker
Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II

Hattie McDaniel
Fidelia

Agnes Moorehead
Mrs. Emily Hawkins

Alla Nazimova
Zofia Koslowska