Francie lives with her mother and younger brother, Prez, in rural Alabama, where all three work and wait.
Amid the day-to-day grind of working odd jobs for wealthy white folks on the other side of town, Francie becomes involved.
Unfortunately, he\'s made promises he hasn\'t kept, and Francie painfully learns that her dreams of starting junior high school in an integrated urban classroom will go unfulfilled.
Francie\'s father is trying to get settled in Chicago so he can move his family up North.
Francie lives with her mother and younger brother, Prez, in rural Alabama, where all three work and wait