Shandra L. McDonald

When middle-aged Bobby Jackson returns home to Lake City, Alabama he wonders about the lives of 'the Bama Rascals,' a band of misfits he led in the seventies. Have the last 20 years been difficult for them as well? Thankfully, when they were growing up as the most diverse bunch in a military, mostly white town, Coach Billy Adams and his wife Betty rescued them with the all-American pastime of baseball. But its been years since they've been together and now that Coach Billy has died from a massive heart attack, the Rascals must face their past serving as pallbearers for his funeral. Tormented by their current life situations and haunted by troubled pasts, will their homecoming be more bitter than sweet?

흑인여성 헬렌 맥카터는 지금까지 매우 풍족하게 남부러울 것 없는 삶을 살아왔다. 그러나 결혼 18주년 기념이 전날 밤에 남편으로부터 이혼하고 싶다는 청천벽력 같은 소리를 듣는다. 헬렌의 친구와 바람을 피워온 남편은 헬렌에게 집을 나가달라는 요청을 하고 헬렌은 어쩔 수 없이 집을 떠나 홀로 거리로 나선다.