Whistling Past the Graveyard

Whistling through the cemetery. That’s what Daddy used to call it when you did something to distract yourself from your darkest dread.Starla Claudelle, nine years old, runs away from her strict grandmother’s Mississippi home in the summer of 1963. Starla is headed to Nashville, where her mother left to pursue a career as a singer after abandoning her when she was three years old. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman travelling alone with a white baby.