She meets up with Al, Doc’s son, and pretends to have been hired. Doc dismisses her, saying she is too young and doesn’t fit the look of a proper horse diving girl.

Sonora watches Marie perform a dive and requests to be Doc’s new diving girl. As she explores the fair, Sonora comes across William Frank “Doc” Carver-the man who put out the advertisement-and one of his diving girls, Marie. She later meets a younger man named Clifford, who longs to come up with a “death-defying” act that he can perform. Sonora helps Al by hiding one of his trick cards, allowing Al to escape unharmed. She slips away to a local county fair where she encounters a man named Al being hassled by a group of men who believe he’s cheated them in cards. Instead, Sonora sneaks out of the house that night, giving Arnette a goodbye kiss on the forehead. Aunt Helen confronts Sonora later and tells her she’s being moved to an orphanage. When she returns home, she discovers that Lightning has been sold thanks to the cows that got loose and because she was suspended from school. Later, Sonora finds an advertisement in a newspaper for a horse diving girl. Her teacher ignores her for the rest of the day. At school, Sonora hits Clarabelle after being made fun of and is suspended from school, though Sonora refuses to leave. In the jump, Lightning breaks a fence and accidentally sets a herd of cows loose. One girl named Clarabelle calls her bluff, daring Sonora to jump. Sonora claims that Lightning can outrun any horse and jump over any fence. She is confronted by some schoolyard bullies who make fun of her hair and her horse. On her way to school, Sonora tends to her horse, Lightning.

She cuts her hair to imitate a famous magazine model, causing her aunt to force her to wear a bag on her head as punishment. Sonora dreams of leaving her aunt’s home and living in Atlantic City. Sonora Webster lives with her sister, Arnette, and her strict and abusive aunt Helen during the height of the Great Depression. If you are already familiar with this film, feel free to skip ahead to our review. Our synopsis is available below if you need some catching up.

Have you ever heard the story of Sonora Webster Carver? This week we watched Disney’s take on the life of this famous horse diver in Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken, which is the 91st film in the Disnerd Movie Challenge.

Wild hearts can't be broken