Its the summer of 1969, and Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit Big Ma and her eighty-two-year-old mother, Ma Charles. Pa cant remind them enough that the Souths not like Brooklyn, and that you cant get more southern than Alabama.Across the field, through the pines, and over the creek is the Trotter home, where Ma Charless half sister, Miss Trotter, lives. The two half sisters havent spoken in years, each determined to hold on to her version of the truth. Dramatic Vonetta plays middleman to the two warring, elderly sisters, while Delphine struggles against her to bring the family together. As Delphine hears about family history that she never knew existed, she learns of a hurt that happened many years ago—which maybe cant be mended.
