Profiles modern Renaissance man Louis Bromfield, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, successful Hollywood screenwriter, and one of America's most famous farmers. At one time he was America's best-selling novelist, a writer who rivaled the likes of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Powerful Hollywood producers courted him to write movie screenplays. And others credited him with saving America from a second Dust Bowl. Screen legend and close friend Lauren Bacall narrates.