Overview

The open road is the only place that seems safe to Shirley Hopper. She’s “Mutt” to the other wanderers in train yards and back roads. Far from her Mississippi home, she begs a night’s sleep in a Nebraska barn, little imagining that the lovely farmer’s daughter, Annie, is about to change her life. Many years and hard knocks later, Mutt finds that at least Annie was able to pursue her dreams. Now a glamorous, wealthy and pampered movie star married to one of Hollywood’s leading men, Annie is beyond the reach of McCarthy’s paranoid House Un-American Activities Committee. How could Mutt possibly take away Annie’s perfect life, even in the name of love?