Enoree

Enoree depicts eight-year-old Jake's secret friendship with Josiah, a black boy across the Enoree River in Pelham, South Carolina in the 1950's, and Jake's intrigue of Emmett, the "retarded" janitor of the local church; once these forbidden relationships surface, the hatred and prejudice embedded in the hearts of community leaders emerge, affecting courage in Jake and untimely death to others.