Kevin Costner stars in this drama written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson. Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Costner) is encouraged by a mysterious voice to build a baseball field on his land. According to his unknown guide, this will result in the appearance of the ghost of his father's hero, the baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta).

Ray and his wife Annie (Amy Madigan) risk their livelihood installing the field and Ray finds an unlikely partner in reclusive author and activist Terence Mann (James Earl Jones).