Eighty-nine year old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser, Dorrie Curtis. She wants Dorrie to drop everything and take her to Cincinnati to a funeral. Dorrie is in her thirties and a single mother who needs to get away from her own problems for awhile so quickly says yes. Besides, she thinks she may be able to find about some of Isabelle's closely guarded past. Isabelle confesses that as a teen she fell in love with Robert Prewitt, a would-be doctor, black son of their housekeeper -- in a town where blacks weren't allowed after dark. The tale of their forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences makes it clear Dorrie and Isabelle are headed for a gathering of the utmost importance and that the history of Isabelle's first and greatest love just might help Dorrie find her own way.
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