This is a touching love story about a young black couple in the 1950s and early 1960s. The young woman Sylvie (played by Tessa Thompson) manages to get a menial job on a popular TV cooking show, and through her diligence and persistence, and despite constant obstacles of racism and sexism, works her way up to a successful career as a TV producer.
As she's on the way up, she meets a handsome young jazz saxophone virtuoso (Nnamdi Asomugha), and they fall in love, and start planning a life together. But things fall apart when his promising music career collapses as a result of the changing times, and the end of the jazz and big band eras in the early 1960s.
As he loses confidence in himself, he withdraws, stops sharing confidences with her, and eventually settles into a working class job at a car plant far away from her. But can love still conquer all, despite their different circumstances and positions?
This is a moving
universal kind of young love story, placed in the context of the black
experience during the early American civil rights era. Recommended.
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