The Cover of Life

It’s rural Louisiana in 1943. The men are off to war, and a local news story about three young wives keeping the home fires burning intrigues publisher Henry Luce. He decides that they belong on the cover of Life Magazine and assigns Kate Miller to the story. Although a war correspondent,she accepts because it will be her first cover story. Kate spends a week with the Cliffert women, and she begins to understand them while coming face to face with her own powerlessness in a man's world. Rated PG