the secret path

Largely told in flashback, the made-for-TV The Secret Path is the story of Jo Ann Foley (Madeline Zima), a 14-year-old girl living in squalor in a remote Southern community during WW2. Systematically abused by her illegitimate grandfather, bootlegger Hank Foley (Ron White), Jo Ann has like her mother Marie (Crystal Bernard) been forced into a life of prostitution, "servicing" the soldiers of a nearby Army base.