Taynaya zhizn pchel

2 iyulya 1964 goda. V SSHA prinyat Zakon o grazhdanskih pravah, zapreschayuschiy rasovuyu diskriminatsiyu. Lili Ouens iz Yuzhnoy Karoliny ispolnyaetsya 14 let, i vsya ee zhizn slozhilas vokrug smutnyh vospominaniy o tom dne, kogda byla ubita ee mat. Ona zhivet s temnokozhey nyaney Rozalin i zhestokim ottsom, kotoryy za kazhduyu provinnost zastavlyaet ee chasami stoyat na kukuruze.
Kogda Rozalin, oskorblyaet treh samyh zakorenelyh rasistov v gorode, Lili reshaet osvobodit ih oboih: ona bezhit ot despotichnogo ottsa, Rozalin ot nespravedlivosti. Oni napravlyayutsya v Tayburon - gorod, hranyaschiy taynu proshlogo ee materi. Zahvachennaya ekstsentrichnym trio sester-pchelovodov, Lili znakomitsya s zavorazhivayuschim mirom pchel i meda, a takzhe s bozhestvennoy Madonnoy.
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