Norma Rae, a textile worker in a small Southern town, discovers that she has a social conscience when a labor organizer arrives at her mill to establish a union.

Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never knew she had. Under the guidance of a New York unionizer and with increasing courage and determination, Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages. Based on a true story.

Coming home: When her United States Army captain husband Bob goes to serve in Vietnam during the war, Sally Bender goes to work as a nurse in a veteran's hospital with her friend Violet, where she meets and begins to fall in love with an old high school friend, Luke Martin, who came home from Vietnam a paraplegic. When Violet's brother, who came home from Vietnam mad, commits suicide, Luke's obsession becomes ending the war. Norma Rae: Southern mill worker Norma Rae organizes her fellow workers to fight for better conditions and wages under the guidance of a New York unionizer.