Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


June Lorich works at the Mesabi Mine on Minnesota's iron range. After an emotionally and physically abusive marriage, June is determined to make it on her own. But the worsening steel industry forces major cutbacks and June is bumped down to an all-male pit. She becomes the brunt of the other workers' hostilities and is forced to fight against them -- and the man she loves -- to save her job.
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“Sometimes a woman has to listen to her own voice”
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Lydia Olson
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