Overview
Frank Haynes, an earth loving farmer, has given up his hound-dogging and
high times under the pressure of the family's admonition that "A man
has got to get ahead." Haynes would be happy to do nothing but tend his
farm and reap whatever profit it might generate. But he realizes that
there are five mouths depending on him and the lure of big money
available to him in a nearby big city factory too great to ignore. Set
against a backdrop of the land-locked Midwest, the play dramatizes a
man's persistent, agonizing search for personal freedom and the sense of
loss between father and son.