An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
as Johnny Williams
as Mattie Williams
as Dr. Dudley Stanton
as Jeff Williams
as Ann Vanderguild
as Big Moe Hayes
as Al
as Chips
as Skeeter
as Gail
as Wilhelmina Geneva Brow
as White Police Lieutenant
as Black Policeman
