Two young women with drastically different life experiences struggle to navigate the Jim Crow era's turbulent waters in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 1895. Bordered by mountains and the mighty Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, the area's scenic beauty is legendary. A dark current is rippling through the town, however, and threatening to tear lives apart.
Ida Mae Parker will soon graduate from high school. Although her parents want her to become a teacher, she yearns to become a professional singer. A descendant of enslaved people, Ida Mae wants to focus on her studies and to stay away from trouble caused by the Jim Crow laws designed to keep Black people from thriving. As racial ugliness targets her own family, though, she struggles to find her place in the world.
Circumstances force Hazel Whitaker to leave her poor white family and support herself. Finding only wretched jobs, her survival becomes difficult. She longs to create a better future for herself, but her dearest dream of becoming a photographer seems impossible to achieve.
Hazel and Ida Mae have nothing in common. When fate throws them together, however, an unlikely friendship emerges. After tragedies strike, will supporting each other provide the inner strength that Ida Mae and Hazel need to stand tall for themselves?
Two young women with drastically different life experiences struggle to navigate the Jim Crow era's turbulent waters in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 1895. Bordered by mountains and the mighty Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, the area's scenic beauty is legendary. A dark current is rippling through the town, however, and threatening to tear lives apart.
Ida Mae Parker will soon graduate from high school. Although her parents want her to become a teacher, she yearns to become a professional singer. A descendant of enslaved people, Ida Mae wants to focus on her studies and to stay away from trouble caused by the Jim Crow laws designed to keep Black people from thriving. As racial ugliness targets her own family, though, she struggles to find her place in the world.
Circumstances force Hazel Whitaker to leave her poor white family and support herself. Finding only wretched jobs, her survival becomes difficult. She longs to create a better future for herself, but her dearest dream of becoming a photographer seems impossible to achieve.
Hazel and Ida Mae have nothing in common. When fate throws them together, however, an unlikely friendship emerges. After tragedies strike, will supporting each other provide the inner strength that Ida Mae and Hazel need to stand tall for themselves?
Two young women with drastically different life experiences struggle to navigate the Jim Crow era's turbulent waters in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 1895. Bordered by mountains and the mighty Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, the area's scenic beauty is legendary. A dark current is rippling through the town, however, and threatening to tear lives apart.
Ida Mae Parker will soon graduate from high school. Although her parents want her to become a teacher, she yearns to become a professional singer. A descendant of enslaved people, Ida Mae wants to focus on her studies and to stay away from trouble caused by the Jim Crow laws designed to keep Black people from thriving. As racial ugliness targets her own family, though, she struggles to find her place in the world.
Circumstances force Hazel Whitaker to leave her poor white family and support herself. Finding only wretched jobs, her survival becomes difficult. She longs to create a better future for herself, but her dearest dream of becoming a photographer seems impossible to achieve.
Hazel and Ida Mae have nothing in common. When fate throws them together, however, an unlikely friendship emerges. After tragedies strike, will supporting each other provide the inner strength that Ida Mae and Hazel need to stand tall for themselves?
