Description
A family of three women living in the small (fictional) town of Jenepsi, Kansas struggle with life daily, being that they are African American in an extremely racist southern county, pre Civil Rights era. But the struggle doesn't end there. Josephine Davis is the mother of two young women, Dolly and Tessa Davis. Tessa, although sweet and adorable as can be, was born with a mental disability that keeps her extremely child like. She has been in the trouble four times with the law for consistently stealing candy from the town's local bakery. Tessa's older sister Dolly is a true hero, she is strong, brave, and Tessa's main care giver. Instead of the court system taking Tessa from her family due to her fourth misdemeanor, Dolly signs the dotted line, offering voluntary housing to wounded soldiers from Vietnam to keep her sister from being sent to an insane asylum. Although the plan seemed nice in the beginning, being that it would keep the family together. When Bill Skarsgard, an injured soldier moves into the house sooner than expected, things begin to get much more complex.
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