The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.

Tells a story of love and courage among the hopeless based on the novel THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson Mc Cullers. Portrays a deaf mute who communicates the strength and tenderness of his silent world, touching an Alabama town and a young girl approaching womanhood.

John Singer is a deaf-mute who works as a silver engraver in a small southern town. His only friend is a mentally disabled mute, Spiros Antonapoulos, who continually gets into trouble with the law since he doesn't know any better. John tries to become friends with Jake Blount, a semi-alcoholic drifter, and Dr. Copeland, an embittered segregationist African American who is secretly dying of lung cancer. Mick willfully loses her virginity to the sensitive older brother of one of her classmates after she realizes that her father's injury has permanently disabled him.