As her idyllic coming of age alongside her best friend, Little Tea, on her family's ancestral grounds in bucolic Como, Mississippi unfolds,Celia realizes there is no better place to accept her own story than in this circle of friends who have remained beside her throughout the years.  Theirs is a friendship that can talk any life sorrow into a comic tragedy, and now the the racial divide in the Deep South has evolved, Celia wonders if friendship can triumph over history.