A determined young woman, crippled with a severe hunchback, will stop at nothing to fulfill her dream of seeing the world. This is the story of how she finds happiness.

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

After a lusty sexual affair leaves a family divided and a father devastated, Henrietta ( Alice McAllister ) must do what she can to hold on to what little stability her family has left. Along the way, the family encounters a diverse and colorful cast of burnouts and hippies, deviants and rejects, thrown mercilessly into the mysterious and maddening misfortunes of Reedville, Texas