It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
Bud Cort
Samantha Eggar
Chris Wiggins
Gary Reineke
John Friesen
Michael J. Reynolds
Kenneth Griffith
Scott Swan
Merrilyn Gann
Norma West
Margery Hill
Joanne McNeal
George Gwin
Doug Blake
Alan Stebbings
Joe Yasinsky
Vernis McCuaig
Richard Davison
Kathie Ball
Jim Devereaux
Phyllis Ellis
Lyman Potts
Dale McGowan
Curtis Peterson
Andrea Paulson
Dale Crowle
Warren Sulatycky
Larissa MacLean
Michael Zwiers
Karen Bernstein
Jody Hargraves
Ronald Urban
Cynthia MacDonald
Rick Bremness
Jennifer Hill
Michael Ross
Murray McCune
Cathy Lynn Viste
David Figenshaw
Ed Bell