Joseph Cannon's life is filled with the love of two women and his daughter. The mother of his daughter dies leaving him alone to raise a five-year-old little girl. He protects her from the outside world by isolating her. She is known as the moonshiner's daughter. Jo has only been seen by a few, but everyone knows about the moonshiner's daughter. When revenuers murder him, his daughter, Jo, learns many things about her paw and meets the second woman he loved. Joseph Cannon had left a lasting mark on the hills of Georgia and Jo has goals of her own and wants to be remembered as being more than the moonshiner's daughter.