Tricia Ann is a young girl in Nashville during the 1950's, a time of notable racism. When she learns that there is a special place where everyone is welcomed, regardless of skin color, she's thrilled, and she even agrees to go alone if she has too.
She leaves Mama Frances behind and travels downtown, in search of her special place. The bus has a Jim Crow sign telling Tricia to sit in the back, but a lovely stranger tells the young girl to walk proudly no matter what. The best seats around town have signs that read, "For Whites Only," but a street vendor tells her to stay positive.
Then Tricia accidentally walks into the wrong building, she accidentally offends the white people inside, and they yell at her and kick her out. She's embarrassed and disappointed, but then, she realizes that she has found her destination—the special place where the pain of racism goes away for a while: Nashville Public Library. Tricia learns that in the eyes of the library, all people are equal, as Mama Frances taught her.
