CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE
Charlie Kate Birch is the fiercely independent, unconventional matriarch who has brought her daughter and granddaughter to live with her in the North Carolina backwoods.
Charlie Kate Birch (Gena Rowlands) is the fiercely independent, unconventional matriarch who has brought her daughter and granddaughter to live with her in the North Carolina backwoods. There she proves to be a powerful, magnetic force within her community, earning respect as a mid-wife. Her daughter, Sophia (Mimi Rogers), has been abandoned by her husband, and her cyncial granddaughter, Margaret (Susan May Pratt), is on the lookout for a man. Together these three weather any number of storms -both natural and man-made - with grit, grace and Charlie's unswerving perseverance.