K nachalu tridtsatyh Soedinennye SHtaty ohvatyvaet Velikaya depressiya. Narod golodaet, no nekotorym vse-taki udaetsya vyzhivat. V ih chisle - Rey Linn Kobb i ee muzh Uorren, kotorye derzhat skromnuyu fermu po dobyche sosnovoy zhivitsy. No odnazhdy Uorren, dobryy, hot i slishkom bespechnyy chelovek, stanovitsya zhertvoy sobstvennoy neostorozhnosti, i uyutnyy mir Rey Linn tragicheski rushitsya.
Chtoby spastis, ona predprinimaet otchayannyy shag: pereodevshis muzhchinoy, otpravlyaetsya v rabochiy lager Lastochkino Gnezdo, nadeyas nanyatsya chernorabochim na skipidarnoe proizvodstvo. Udastsya li ey sohranit anonimnost v zhestokom muzhskom mire?