Annie is the matriarch of the powerful Cole family of Branchville, South Carolina in 1924. The suicide of her young son has shattered the family and caused a long estrangement with her two grown daughters.
Gertie, poor and abused by her drunken husband, is desperate to make sure her four daughters won't suffer the same sad life. Working for Miss Annie's Sewing Circle could be her way out.
Retta is a first generation freed slave employed by Miss Annie. Her life is complicated when she challenges the skepticism of the residents of the black community of Shake Rag by taking in Gertie and her children.
Desperate times call for desperate measures for all of them but there is a dark secret they share that brings the lives of these three women to a dramatic climax. I am always fascinated by southern stories where race/class is so well defined and yet the lives of both races is so entwined. And it is particularly true of these women.
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