Ollie's Gift: Inspired by a True Story

What happens when a single, painful truth shatters a child's innocent view of the world?

December 1958. Nine-year-old Marie's world overflows with love in a small New England town, where Christmas glows with family gatherings, laughter, and the comforting certainty that life is good and safe.

But a post-Christmas trip to her missionary cousin in Alabama abruptly thrusts Marie into a world she never imagined-where racism, hatred, and poverty define daily life for some in the Jim Crow-era Deep ...