Riggins Row

<p>Most white folks refer to Riggins Row as a shanty town. No white man would dare show up there unless it was daylight. No self-respecting white woman would be caught there at all. But for Johnny Ruth and Hessie it's home. All of their relatives had lived and died right there on the Row.</p> <p>Johnny Ruth and Hessie grew up together becoming best friends and neighbors living side by side on Riggins Row in the middle of a small rural town in Tennessee. It's 1953 and both women are domestic maids who feel privileged to be working for prominent families who treat them well. It's a better situation than most other domestics have in these parts.</p> <p>Johnny Ruth works for the Porters the wealthiest family in the county. Charles Porter a well-to-do attorney is closely connected to the Ku Klux Klan. His beautiful wife Savannah is concealing her sordid secretive past. Unlike her husband however Savannah doesn't have a racist bone in her body. When Charles hires Jasper Thomas a black man to be Savannah's driver he has no idea that Jasper and Savannah will become best friends and confidants adding fuel to an already smoldering fire within the community.</p> <p>Quick to notice this friendship Johnny Ruth warns them of the far-reaching affects this taboo relationship could have-not only on them but their families friends and possibly the whole town.</p>