Hilarie Burton as Deborah Owens, Lily's mother.Jennifer Hudson as Rosaleen "July" Daise-Boatwright.Ray leaves her to be raised by the Boatwrights. Ray about her mother, and he reveals he lied to her her mother really did come back for her. However, Lily refuses to leave, and August, June, and Rosaleen form a phalanx of support. He comes to Tiburon to take Lily home with him. Ray has figured out where Lily is by using a map she had pinned on her bedroom wall. Before she’s able to go, August challenges her outlook, and tells Lily about her mother, whom August cared for as a child in Virginia and later sheltered from the abuse of T. She has a breakdown, convinced her mother didn’t want her, feeling unloved and unlovable, and resigns herself to leave before she causes any more harm. Lily, who already believes she killed her mother, now blames herself for Zach's kidnapping and May's death. Rosaleen is asked to be part of the household family, and August says they will call her July. June agrees to wed her long-time boyfriend who she had previously repeatedly rejected. With May's funeral comes some reconciliation and truth. Out of grief, May drowns herself to escape the pain of feeling the world's hatred, though in her suicide note she predicts Zach will be returned alive, and he is found the next day. June and August hide the news from May to try and protect her, but Zach's mother reveals the news to her accidentally.
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Lily and Zach try to watch a movie together, but when they disregard racial barriers, sitting together in the "colored" section, gets Zach kidnapped by a group of townspeople. In time Lily grows close to Zach, the teenage son of one member in the prayer group and August's assistant beekeeper/godson. She also learns about August’s leadership of a small group of women who pray to the life-size statue of a Black Madonna in the Boatwright’s living room for guidance.
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Lily becomes an apprentice beekeeper and later discovers May's “ wailing wall”, tucked full of little notes about events that have distressed the brittle and sensitive May, as well as May’s twin sister April, who died in childhood. Despite the unlikeliness of Lily's lies about hers and Rosaleen’s circumstances, and June’s suspicions, August takes them in, agreeing to trade room and board for their labor. August has used her skills as a beekeeper to build a successful business. It takes two days for Lily and Rosaleen to reach Tiburon and find their way to the home of August Boatwright and her sisters May and June. They head for Tiburon, with Lily hoping to figure out more about her mother’s past. Ray retrieves Lily and takes her back home, but she runs away and breaks Rosaleen out of the hospital, where she’s being treated for her wounds while she awaits jail. The pair encounter a group of racists who beat Rosaleen after she stands her ground against their intimidation, and she is arrested. On her birthday, Rosaleen takes Lily into town under the pretense of Lily getting measured for a bra, but also to give Rosaleen the opportunity to register to vote. Ray who assumes she was out there with a boy and punishes her by having her kneel on a pile of grits for an hour. She is caught hastily buttoning her shirt by T. Ray calling for her and quickly buries her mothers belongings and tries to quickly button her shirt. On the night before her birthday, Lily sneaks away into a nearby cornfield where she has secretly buried a few mementos of her mother, including a jar labeled “Black Madonna Honey, Tiburon, SC.” She places the picture of her mother on her stomach to feel closer to her as she lays back in the cornfield. In the present day, her 14th birthday is approaching, and she celebrates the signing of the Civil Rights Act with her father’s Black hired help, Rosaleen. 10 years earlier, the four-year-old Lily accidentally shot her mother as she was attempting to leave T. In 1964 South Carolina, Lily lives on a peach orchard with her abusive, widowed father T.