Looking back at age 87 on her Depression-era childhood, Flora Gray Harper McMillian vividly recalls a life on the run with a father whose entanglements with whiskey and the law kept him in and out of prison. As she struggles along with her mother and six siblings to put food on the table and dodge her father's temper, it's impossible not to be inspired by the family's love and care for each other, their faith in God, and the hard work it takes simply to survive.