On her tenth birthday, Leah receives a surprise gift from glamorous Aunt
Olivia, Mama's only sister, who lives in Los Angeles. It is a red rose
box. Not many people in 1958 Louisiana have seen such a beautiful
traveling case, covered with red roses, filled with jewelry, silk
bedclothes, expensive soaps...and train tickets to California. Soon
after, Leah and her sister, Ruth, find themselves in Hollywood, far away
from cotton fields and Jim Crow laws. To Leah, California feels like
freedom. But when disaster strikes back home, Leah and Ruth have to stay
with Aunt Olivia permanently. Will freedom ever feel like home?