The Burden of Sweetberry is set in Sipsey, Alabama, in the early 1960's. Sweetberry Armstrong has lived her life depending on men. She left home as a teenager with soul singer, Eddie Simpson, hoping to live the high life in New York City. When that life ends with a tragedy, Sweetberry returns to Sipsey sick and penniless. With no skills and a child to take care of, all she has is her beauty and sensuality, and they become her bargaining chips with men. Josiah Hess, a respectable married man and deacon of the church, falls in love with Sweetberry. His compassion for her situation compels him...