The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis

The murdered youth Emmett Till comes to life in a lonely young girl's heart when an African-American Marine teaches her to swim in a North Carolina river. Twelve-year-old Gabriella lives on a North Carolina military base in 1957, where she meets an African-American marine named Hawkins who coaches her to swim in the river where two years earlier, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till's body was tossed subsequent to his lynching for whistling at a white woman. As Gabriella's swimming improves, she finds her strength with the help of Hawkins and inspiration from Emmett's spirit in the river's waters