Presents a dramatization of Tillie Olsen's 1961 short story "I Stand Here Ironing," in which an impoverished single mother irons as she muses about her worth as a parent and the future of her teenage daughter.
This reworking of an unfinished novel from the 1930s relates the story of Mazie, a young girl, whose poverty-stricken family attempts to survive on a South Dakota farm in the 1920s and 1930s.
