The movie tells the story of Sophie, a girl from small-town South Carolina, who falls in love with a Japanese gardener in 1941. However, as their secret relationship evolves the war escalates tragically.
An eloquent, and both captivating and terrifying story playing out on the eve of the US entry into WW II, the film connects the Jim Crow South, and racism against Japanese Americans. And women bonding together in crisis for better - and often much worse.
Greenwald and cinematographer Wolfgang Held linger on the idyllic beauty of the salt marsh and trees draped with Spanish moss, using the vivid cerulean of native blue crabs to link her characters.
