The year is 1963, as social unrest, riots, and mayhem infect a troubled nation. In its midst, two under-age teenagers meet and fall in love. This is an improbable coming-of-age story about race, bigotry and hatred, and the destruction it brings to a tiny plantation town. It's the story of two adolescents from the darkest regions of the Old South, one black and one white, both finding love for the very first time, joining together with all the lust and fury of a nuclear bomb. It's a story of contrasts in the extreme, between rich and poor, north and south, those that have, and those that have...