Rashad, a Broadway veteran and Bill Cosby's TV wife for so many years, fell in love with John Henry Redwood's play when she saw a production of it in New York. Right then and there she set out to get the TV rights. Shauneille Perry wrote the fine TV adaptation of Redwood's play. In this poignant drama, so evocative of time and place, it's 1943. She had an apartment in Brooklyn until she threw her wandering husband out.
Money is scarce, and times are tough for both sisters.
So even though they needle each other's nerves, and there's a back-story in their lives that neither can forgive or forget, they are trying hard now to make this togetherness work. But trouble is about to walk in the door. Elizabeth has agreed to take in a roomer, a friend of her church deacon. Since Bessie Lou came to Harlem from Frogmore, she has acquired a new name, a new boyfriend and a love of night life, at famous Harlem places like the Savoy Ballroom. The only thing that interests Bessie Lou about Herman is the money his mama left him when she died.