A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South.

George Hamilton
as Paul Strand

Mercedes McCambridge
as Sarah Strand

Joan Blondell
as Mollie Hays

Henry Jones
as Ben Hays

Burt Reynolds
as Hoke Adams

Salome Jens
as Angel Baby

Roger Clark
as Sam Wilcox

Dudley Remus
as Otis Finch

R. L. Armstrong
as The Shanty Man

Harry Swoger
as Big Cripple