An accidental bump starts a gigantic fight in the schoolyard when the students forget to use their heads and use their fists instead

In a small southern town in 1908, fifteen-year-old Annie Earle, though afflicted with a club foot and surrounded by a sick mother and brother, gains a new insight into herself and the possibilities of her life through her relationship with a young black woman and a new young man in town with whom she falls in love.In the South of 1908, with the encouragement of her friends, and despite her physical handicaps and the opposition of her cruel and avaricious aunt, young Annie Earle finds the strength to rise above her adversities