1940s

Fall for a soldier while war creeps closer to home

that1girlariel

In the Black-and-white 1940s, a light-skinned beauty with a hypnotic voice stuns a segregated library when she embraces her famous sister, Toni Morrison, forcing everyone to confront the dangerous power of blood and color.

In the segregated 1940s, a mixed-race teen with a mesmerizing voice navigates high society while her sister Toni Morrison fights on the other side of the color line—until a public encounter forces both worlds to collide.

In the shadow of WWII, a curvy, light-skinned jazz singer becomes the first Black pin-up in a segregated America, igniting a cultural firestorm she can’t escape even after the war ends.

In the shadow of WWII, a light-skinned Black girl with a voice that stops time becomes a secret icon posing for a forbidden pin-up magazine and dancing for lonely colored soldiers—but when the war ends, the fame she tried to leave behind threatens to consume her quiet new life.