Darkness on the Delta

Growing up and living in conflict with the social mores and standards of the Mississippi Delta, school teacher Bern Gresham must find solutions for a wide array of formidable complications as he battles against significant economic poverty and racial divides. His personal life becomes a quagmire of family deaths, deep depression, and unrelenting anger that he must reconcile in order to find joy and a belief that life is worth living, even in the darkness that comfortably shades but oppressively shackles life in the Delta.