Christina invites Forrest and his children to her Christmas party. Lilly finds the holidays difficult to bear after she is brutally beaten by a freedom-bus protester and Paul Slocum finds Christmas cheer in an unlikely place - Coach Zollicofer Weed's circle of friends.
With Forrest away on a weekend hunting trip, womanhood takes aim at Francie, who feels utterly alone; while worries about an errant arrow dog John Morgan.
Since his successful prosecution of the two Ku Klux clansmen for the murder of Colonel Landers Forrest suspects that he himself is being investigated by the F.B.I.