One of the film""s posters briefly and dramatically described each character:LUCY...Her husband""s money couldn""t buy her, nor another man""s love make her unfaithful!MITCH...Who gave his best friend the woman he wanted for his own!MARYLEE...Who couldn""t have Mitch, so she sought love when and where she could get it!KYLE...Who hid his secret behind a bottle and a hundred million dollars!The film""s tagline pronounced:The story of a family""s ugly secret and the stark moment that thrust their private lives into public view!The film included such sordid subjects as nymphomania, alcoholism, murderous jealousy and rage, phallic power and infertility, miscarriage, back-stabbing emotional blackmail, and illusory materialistic happiness.But it isn""t, sir.Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms...if he had guts to knock Mom cold once, then maybe she""d be happy and then she""d stop pickin"" on him, because they make mush outta him."On the lawn at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett is surrounded by interested beaux, but not Ashley.During their naptime, Scarlett""s sister Suellen teases her about her romantic interest: "How is Ashley today, Scarlett? He didn""t seem to be paying much attention o you.He had been prepared to die inside the volcano after the "cold fusion" device was successfully detonated inside the active volcano, to halt the devastation and render it inert by freezing.