A mother and son wander aimlessly in the late 1920s through Arizona and Mexico border-town poverty, homeless, with no life direction. In the early 1930s the son, through life's happenstance of meeting one man, discovers a better way that people can live and exist in a loving family. Finally free from his mother's control, his life begins anew. Ultimately, in 1937, the state of Arizona reunites him with extended family living in Tucson. This time...