Ripped from middle-class life in Philadelphia, and transplanted to a single-parent household in the segregated South, Sarah Bracey White, a precocious black child, struggles to be the master of her fate. She refuses to accept the segregation that tries to confine her -- a system her mother accepts as the Southern way of life.

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