Sixteen

Ma (Mercedes McCambridge) and Pa Irtley (Ford Rainey) are simple Southerners leading an idyllic life with their children -- but that is all overturned by the building of a highway through their land, for which they are paid $8,000. Now rootless, they are persuaded by their progeny to take them to a nearby carnival so they might experience the outside world. However, son Bruvver (John Lozier) and daughter Naomi (Simone Griffeth) soon fall prey to greedy strangers and the pleasures of the flesh.