A remarkable young couple evolves amid the chaos of the early civil rights movement and the Vietnam Era.
The resilient lovers combat the rampage of cross burnings.
Smitten from the beginning, Emmett, lacking formal schooling but filled with natural wisdom, risk his reputation to support Sarah\'s work with the Sharecroppers Union.
Against the strong objections of her wealthy parents, twenty-two-year-old Sarah Wentworth leaves Boston for a new home among black farming families in the Deep South.
A remarkable young couple evolves amid the chaos of the early civil rights movement and the Vietnam Era