interracial friendship

Offers insight into the lives of Elizabeth Eckford, an African American woman who was one of the Little Rock Nine, and Hazel Bryan, a woman who attended Little Rock Central High School and was photographed shouting racial epithets at Elizabeth outside of the school, and looks at the impact of their reconciliation on the lives of these two women and on the community.

In 1959 Georgia, Polly, a twelve-year-old white girl, and Timbre Ann, a fourteen-year-old African-American, find their friendship tested when arsonists begin setting fires to businesses owned by African-Americans and the townspeople are separated by Jim Crow laws.

While the Mau Mau rebellion threatens the British settlers living in Kenya during the 1950s, Mathew and Mugo maintain their friendship, despite their different races, but during these tense times, a single act of betrayal could alter everything.