Heavy Is The Rain

Heavy Is The Rain begins in the 1940s with a seven-year-old Billie Cunningham’s move from rural South Carolina to Baltimore with her mother, Lilly Ann, in search of a better life. Their new life has been secured through Lilly Ann’s marriage to Herbert Brown, a man twelve years her senior, but mother and daughter quickly discover that their fresh start has come with a heavy price. For Lilly Ann, it means turning a blind eye to her husband’s hedonism and passion for forbidden fruit, and, for ...