class consciousness

A charming, young English woman is at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable and is forced to choose between convention and passion.

Linguist Henry Higgins bets Colonel Pickering that he can change flower seller Eliza Doolittle from a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe" to a "duchess" by improving her manners, speech, and clothes in just six months.

Twelve-year-old Colin Wynn, inspired by the coming of electricity to his rural community in 1947, believes the modernization of Emery, Georgia signals the start of an age of social enlightenment that will even the score between the haves and have-nots who live on either side of Route 17.