In 1957, two young women, Essie Donnelly and Minnie Pryor, one white and one black, travel together in a deeply segregated South to begin a harrowing search for the daughter of Essie's deceased sister Jewell. Essie struggles with life without her sister and the failure of her writing career. Minnie confronts her stigma of poverty and racism. Together, the women are challenged with racial misgivings, striving to settle them despite the color of their...