A product of rape, Alphonsia was born in 1923 to a teenage mother, Emmy and raised by her over protective grandmother, Grace in the piney woods of Mississippi. Alphonsia's father was a good looking man of mixed-raced-a product of rape himself-who left the county as soon as he learned of Emmy's pregnancy. No longer the apple of her mother's eye, Emmy leaves her young daughter with her mother to try and make a better life for herself in Chicago. But...