
A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.
Dr. Meg Laurel

Granny Arrowroot

Effie Webb

Judge Adamson

Harley Moon

Joe

Thom Laurel

Doug Slocomb

Sin Eater

Messerschmidt

Mrs. Slocomb

Becca

Laurie Mae Moon

Sophie Pride
The Dentist

Jacob Barth

Joel

Rose Hooper

Granny Bacon
Willis

Herm
Harve

Mildred Koch

Vyrle Macy
Corra Macy
Camille Kapp
Mrs. Pride
Joshua Moon
Walt Ridgeway
Roy

Butler
Man #1
Woman #1
Twelve-Year-Old Meg
Seven-Year-Old Meg
Meg Middle