Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
The true-story of Terry Jean Moore, a young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. While In prison, she gets pregnant by a jailer and must fight to keep her child.
