Clover

After the death of her black husband, a white woman (Elizabeth McGovern) is faced with the racism of her in-laws and her young stepdaughter (Zelda Harris). Everleen: Loretta Devine. Jim Ed: Ron Canada. Gaten: Ernie Hudson. Based on the novel by Dori Sanders., Eleven-year-old Clover is angry, confused, frightened, and sad. She didn’t ask her father to fall in love with that Yankee white woman, and she certainly didn’t expect her father to die in a car crash on his wedding day. Now she feels all alone, caught between her family, who strongly disapprove of her father’s bride, and the well-meaning but culturally clueless stepmother who tries to win Clover’s love and deal with her own grief. In an unexpected turn of events, it is the late father/husband himself who provides the catalyst for healing. An unusually well-wrought made-for-cable drama, Clover explores a family’s grief and attempts to come together in a realistic, moving manner., Clover, a young girl, finds herself at the centre of a family conflict when her loving father is killed in a car crash on the night of his marriage to a white woman. Drama in which the young girl of the title finds herself at the centre of a family conflict when her loving father is killed in a car crash on the night of his marriage to a white woman, Sara Kate (Elizabeth McGovern). As the tight-knit family closes rank, Sara Kate faces an uphill battle to do what she believes her late husband would have wanted: for her to raise Clover., Clover is a precocious ten-year-old black girl living with her widowed father on the family peach orchard in the Deep South. Her aunt, uncle and grandmother all live nearby, so she has never wanted for love. Her life is upended, however, when her father marries an attractive white woman, Sara Kate, and then tragically is killed in an auto accident the night of the wedding.