Chokecherry Girl

Its 1958. Racial tension and class disparities have everyone on edge in a small Montana town. Despite their differences three women of the community become the unlikeliest of friends. BOBBI VERNON is a quirky teen who will do whatever it takes to drive her teachers new Chevy convertible. Adding to the already volatile mix she meets Pretty Weasel an Indian basketball player who calls her Chokecherry Girl. She dreams of dating him and wearing his class ring. PATSY OLSON after two failed marriages is desperate to get her life back. After opening a beauty shop with a shaky bank loan she watches Coach Vernon Bobbis father arriving for school each day. Attracted yet wary she needs the business of the town ladies including the Coachs wife Lois. MARY AGNES LONE HILL an alcoholic Crow Indian who was sent far away to a brutal Indian school as a child now cleans houses for the town ladies and longs to end her estrangement with her son Pretty Weasel. These three women are drawn together through an illicit love affair a stolen car and a shooting that changes their lives forever.