Lily Dale

In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reunited with his mother, Corella, and his sister, Lily Dale, following a long estrangement. He has not seen either since he was 12 because his wicked stepfather, Pete Davenport (whom his mother married after his father drank himself to death) believes a boy ought to be self-reliant.

• small town
• texas
• based on true story
• based on play or musical
• stepfather
• young man
• bitterness
• dead father
• older brother younger sister
• family tension
• estrangement
• return home
• 1910s
• semi-biographical
• reunite
• family estrangement