Gee's Bend

This epic but intimate tale spanning 50 years follows the lives of Sadie Pettway and the women of Gee's Bend, Alabama who create magnificent quilts, and while doing so, sing hauntingly beautiful gospel melodies. As the decades pass, Sadie endures an abusive marriage, racial indignities and the hardships of the working poor to emerge as a great artist and a greatly admired human being.