The small town of Morgan Hill, Tennessee, is turned upside
down in 1947 when the Turners become the only black family
ever to move into the area. Nine-year-old Jane Gable first
lays eyes on young Milo Turner the day that her trouble-
making, alcoholic father is buried in the Morgan Falls
cemetery.
When the Turners begin work as sharecroppers on a local
tobacco farm, their presence challenges the comfort of
many in the close-knit town and Jane leans heavily on her
best friend, 53-year-old general store owner Henry Walker,
for guidance. Then tragedy strikes the Turner household:
Jane, her mother Fran (already pregnant with anothermouth
to feed), and younger brother John find themselves torn
between the people they've lived with all their lives and
a dying request from 6-year-old Milo Turner's mother that
nearly rips their world apart.
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