ALICE: To establish myself as a writer, it’s all I’ve ever really wanted.
DUNBAR: Marry me. I’ll help you grow like a delicate tendril of ivy climbs the side of a sturdy oak to the sun.
The love story of American poet laureate, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and his brilliant writer wife, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, interweaves the music of their lyrical poetry and the clash of their turbulent marriage against the fascinating backdrop of turn of the century America. Both strive to live by their pen… while the yoke of slavery and stereotypes for African-Americans and women still hold tight.
