it really is 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama.

During this racially charged surroundings in "the so much segregated urban within the United States," Peg James, a tender black lady from Ohio, relocates to Birmingham while her service provider, Dr. Carson, a well-known health care professional and his spouse purchase a stately domestic there in an elite, segregated neighborhood.. Peg is repsponsible for the family's circulate from Ohio, to Alabama,, supervises the loved ones and grounds employees.

Dr. Carson, who was once given up for adoption whilst his mom and dad had a moment baby towards the top of the melancholy and knew they can no longer offer for 2 little ones, bought a house round the corner to a guy he believes is his organic brother, Ken Stevens, a Birmingham District lawyer and unknown to Dr. Carson,Imperial Wizard for the Ku Klux Klan.

Despite being time and again raped by means of Ken, Peg turns into entangled in an emotional conflict while she reveals herself interested in a guy she is forbidden to like. Tending to a backyard the place she makes use of ashes to develop an array of lovely vegetation, Peg enlists assistance from a precocious younger black lady and the unwell son of her employer's brother who doesn't be aware of they're similar.

Peg's clandestine sexual encounters that she is compelled to proceed through threats of violence opposed to herself and her "family" is like her appealing backyard, purely displaying the sweetness at the floor, yet no longer the ashes beneath. Her mystery can by no means be printed as the lives of the folk she loves, incluidng the younger Klan member who falls in love along with her, are at stake..