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It's 1965, hot summer in Chicago. Pinkie, 10, yearns to know her birth mother. Pinkie 'looks White' but is being 'raised Black' by Jolene.
A riot erupts. Pinkie runs away. She's taken in by Missus Sawhill, a hunchbacked crone -- and also the richest, most powerful person in her West Side precinct.
Mollie encounters Judy, a nun -- who, we'll discover, is Pinkie's birth mother.
A year passes. Pinkie and Mollie meet. A cautious relationship begins.
Dr. King brings open-housing campaign to Chicago; he moves in near Pinkie.
Pinkie's loses beloved 'baby sister' Bettina during another riot. Bereft, she begs Mollie's assistance.
But then Pinkie falls into the clutches of Rev Bivens, King's right-hand man. Bivens puts her at the head of a march where she braves a gantlet of White hatred. But Bettina is in the march too. They flee.
At last Pinkie and Judy meet; but Judy says: 'I can't be your mom'.
Sawhill masterminds massive fraud; Mollie and Steve reveal it. Sawhill goes to jail. Jolene -- who stole Pinkie as infant and lives off her child support -- goes too. Pinkie and Bettina are now alone. Mollie would adopt but Pinkie declines: 'I'll find my own way now.'
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