Rising Above a Dream

When his mother, Martha, dies shortly after his birth, Aunt
Shalla and Uncle Carl raise him until his father, Hollis,
forces him into a world of abuse at the age of ten. Milton
endures the vindictive and manipulative ways of his
stepmother, Marie-Joyce, until he runs away from home to the
Kohls, a white German family who treats him like one of
their own.

During the hot summer days working on
the farm, Milton makes time for his first love, Lucy, but he
soon leaves her to work in Philadelphia with Dr. Zoenfeld.
Despite a promising future in dentistry, Milton's dream is
to become a farmer and a great landowner utilizing his own
fertilizer formula, so he returns home to a life in the
fields.

Dealing with life's struggles of hardship,
love, racism, and abuse, Milton must find a way to create
his own destiny. What he learns from his family and those
closest to him will change him forever.