 Charlie s War is the story of Charlotte Lewis (Olympia Dukakis), a woman who is experiencing serious emotional and mental turmoil brought about by nightmares of increasing intensity. In the dreams, she is a young girl, and she runs from unknown terrors. Trying to understand her troubling dreams, Charlotte revisits part of her childhood, which comes back to her in a series of impressionistic memories. Charlie (Ariel Blackwood), her sister, Jobie (Maggie Jones), and her mother (Bobbie Eakes) move in with her grandmother (Lynn Redgrave). It is 1944, and World War II rages in Europe and the Far East. Though Grandma s farm seems to be a peaceful refuge, there is an undercurrent of fear and brooding menace in their surroundings. Diane Ladd also stars as the older Jobie. Other featured actors are Ruby Guidara, David Alford, Hunter Hayes, Christina Zorich, and Isabella Steele. The cast is supported by several well-known Nashville actors, among whom are, Peggy Walton-Walker, Jim Wright, Cliff Cudney, Matthew Gerbig, Natalia Duncan, Vernon Winfrey, Roger Allen, Tamara Trexler-Motley and Wes Motley.