If Beale Street could talk

The inspiration for the upcoming feature film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their families come together to fight for his freedom, will their love be enough?'Soulful. Racial injustice may flatten the black experience into one single, fearful, constantly undermined way of life - but black life, black love, is so much larger than that.