The Trip to Bountiful depicts an elderly woman, Carrie Satts, “who has to live with a daughter-in-law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side.”
While residing with this unhappy family in a Houston apartment, Watts dreams of returning to the tiny town of Bountiful, Texas where she was raised. She manages to escape the apartment and embarks by bus to her destination. She meets several people along the way.