Set on the water-starved western plains, it is the story of Lizzie Curry, who has resigned herself to a life without love as she and the men of the family struggle to keep the farm from collapsing under the weight of devastating drought. Out of the arid ether of this parched land, a shadow larger than life fills the horizon, awakening the hopeful dreamer in all of us. Andrew Traister directs N. Richard Nash’s The Rainmaker.