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As a kid, Emma Malloy remaining isolated Coal River, Pa, vowing to never returning. Now, orphaned and penniless at 19, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and vacations back again to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her family, Emma works free of charge in the business store. There, miners and their impoverished people must pay inflated charges for food, clothing, and tools while those who owe money are transformed away to starve. Most heartrending of most will be the breaker boys Emma sees surrounding the village - young children who toil all day sorting coal amid treacherous equipment. Their soot-stained faces remind Emma of the tiny sibling she lost long ago, and she starts leaving taken food on people' doorsteps and marking the miners' charges as paid. Though Emma's actions get ire from the mine owner and law enforcement captain, they lead for an alliance with a charismatic miner who offers to help her expose the reality. As the lines blur between what is legal and what is just, Emma must risk everything to check out her conscience.
