Directed by Academy-Award winner Anthony Mingella and based on Charles Frazier's best-selling Civil War novel of the same name, Cold Mountain tells the story of Inman, a wounded Confederate Soldier who is on a perilous journey home to his mountainous community, hoping to reunite with his pre-war sweetheart, Ada. In his absence, Ada struggles to survive, and revive's her father's farm with the help of intrepid young drifter, Ruby.