Dick Powell's narration about water in the west sets the stage for this drama from the Zane Grey Theater about some very desperate settlers and what they'll do to keep from being driven off the land by drought.
Lew Ayres, Steven Geray, and Walter Sande are all small ranchers and a current drought is killing off their cattle. But it's worse for Ayres as his wife Phyllis Avery is expecting their child in a few months.
Willis Bouchey is a mean embittered old man who praises himself for having the foresight to divert a stream into some sustaining ponds which have kept him going, but left precious little for his neighbors.
Sad to say that the half hour format leaves little time to explore the issue and the ethics surrounding this question. But the ensemble cast give some great performances and Ayres surrenders to the better angels of his nature with a little help from possibly nature's God.