A juvenile court services director strives to fight the odds following his promise to a resourceful 11-year-old to keep her and her four younger brothers and sisters together as a family after their parents abandoned them, despite a bureaucrat's insistence that it is impossible to locate a single foster home for all five.
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Chris Sarandon
Bud Griggs
Melissa Michaelsen
Patty Clawson
George Coe
George Mathews
McKee Anderson
Nancy Sloan
David Haskell
Tom Parks
Sondra West
Alice Parks
Marc Alaimo
Joe Clawson
C.J. Hincks
June Clawson
Tristine Schmukler
Sue Anne Clawson
John McCaffrey
John Clawson
Erika Katz
Karen Clawson
Canaan Crouch
Charlie Clawson
Jessie Lee Fulton
Mrs. Gustafson
Irma P. Hall
Williston
William H. Burkett
Judge Harrington
