"Some things just don\'t keep well inside this house ..." The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi.
The secrets of the house are plentiful yet the silence that has encomp.
Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her brother Floyd\'s invitation to join him as a servant for a white family and she enters the web of hostility and deception that is the Kern plantation household. "Some things just don\'t keep well inside this house ..." The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi