Booted out of her parents' house after refusing to identify her unborn baby’s father, Mattie Michael (Oprah Winfrey) moves to a tumbledown housing project on Brewster Place, where she meets a group of strong-minded women facing similar woes. During the course of three decades, the ladies do battle against abject poverty, bigotry and unreliable men in this acclaimed TV miniseries adapted from Gloria Naylor's best-selling novel.