Summer of '63

In the summer of 1963, thirteen-year-old Rod Noodleman travels alone by Greyhound from Miami to visit his cousins in Texas. On the bus, he meets two southern belles from Mississippi, leading to a budding romance despite their differing views on integration and religion. Rod also learns about a secret WWII operation to smuggle German Jews into Texas and witnesses his uncle, the only Jewish resident of Clarksville, confront religious and racial intolerance, including a cross burning.