Rannie Toomer is a young, unattractive woman who has only one person in her life that matters to her, her son Snooks. When Snooks becomes deathly ill with pneumonia, Rannie Toomer wants a white doctor to come and save him. Rannie asks the white mailman to get a doctor, but instead he enlists the help of the local rootworker. When Rannie realizes the doctor is not coming, she resigns herself to taking the help of the rootworker. However, Rannie has waited too long. The rootworker knows this, so she comes up with a way to get Rannie out of the house for a little while and to give her some hope. The rootworker has Rannie collect horse urine to feed to her child, promising her it could help the child. While Rannie is chasing a horse in a field and collecting its urine in her shoe, the child dies.
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