Elizabeth and Margaret have been friends for a lifetime. Now as elderly roommates and best friends these women live a simple life. When they start to reminisce about the days when they met each other and how their friendship came to be we see a totally different side of both of them. Elizabeth was responsible for escorting Margaret, an African American student around her high school in it’s attempt to integrate. They were not friends and they did not like each other but on the morning of Margaret’s first day of school when Elizabeth arrives late Margaret is met by a group of people who do not want to see her walk into the high school. She is beaten and set on fire before Elizabeth arrives to save her. From that moment on Elizabeth never left her side again. So much so that the women were able to become friends and move past the color lines.
