Losing Gold, Finding Treasure

Beautiful 25-year-old ash-blond Sammie Joyce Hunnicutt is escaping poverty-stricken east Tennessee in 1953 and on her way to a promised job in California after a girlfriend writes her that the state is filled with gold for a determined and a pretty girl. Sammie Joyce could make a fortune, her friend tells her. The life she is living in her hometown is smothering her and Sammie Joyce wants to move on.

Sammie Joyce's husband, Brownlee Hunnicutt, promises Sammie Joyce that if she tries to take their five-year-old daughter with her, he will bury her. Deep. Sammie Joyce believes him.

Once she arrives at her girlfriend's home, Sammie Joyce discovers that the promised job will involve dressing nice and going on "Dates," with older men and being their arm-candy for the evening or the night. She is determined to not return home, but she must consider the price to be paid for not returning.

Brownlee and his daughter, LeeAnna, barely scrape by for the next five years by him finding odd-jobs and digging for ginseng in their mountainous area after their wife and mother's departure. Then their life changes after he stumbles upon a 90 year old execution site.

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