Land of Little Rain

Starring EMMY and Academy Award-winning Actress Helen Hunt

In 1900, if you wanted to be a writer in California, you had better be a man. There were socially acceptable professions for women, if you wish to consider either teaching or homemaking. Mary Austin sought so much more. This is her true story.

Drawn to the Native Americans and the ways of the desert, she embraced the Indian culture. Caught within an unhappy marriage and with an autistic child, life on the frontier edges was lonely and frustrating.

Mary Austin lived a fascinating life. Portrayed by EMMY and Academy Award-winning Actress Helen Hunt, she became a poet, novelist, critic, and playwright, exercising her feminist ideals and becoming one of the first and foremost American writers to document the complex culture and heritage of the American southwest.