Eleven year old Delphine lives in Brooklyn with her Father, Grandma (Big Ma) and two younger sisters. The girls' Mother left them to live in California when they were small. One summer their Father decides the girls should get to know their Mother, Cecile, and the three sisters fly across the country by themselves to Oakland, California in the summer of 1968. It turns out Cecile isn't much of a Mother, she never cooks for them, and sends them to the neighborhood day camp every day. The camp is run by a group called the Black Panthers, who wear large afros and black berets, and teach the girls to question everything they were taught to believe. How will this summer in Oakland change Delphine and her sisters and the way they feel about their distant Mother, who seems to want nothing to do with them?
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