The Piano Lesson

Boy Willie, a human dynamo full of dreams of a better life, drives up from the South eager to make some money to buy some land. But when he wants to sell a battered old piano that has been in his family for generations, he comes across opposition from his sister, Berniece

The piano, covered in intricate carvings detailing their family's rise from slavery, is, for Bereneice, a symbol of their heritage. Somehow, Boy Willie must persuade his sister that the past is the past