If Beale Street Could Talk

Baldwin's novel follows Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover's innocence while carrying their first born child. It's a celebration of love told through the story of a young couple, their families, and their lives.

In author's own words, the film explain how "all black people in America were born in Beale Street", concerning the problems they found because of their skin tone.

The film, wrote and directed by Barry Jenkins, is a celebration about incondicional love of a young couple, their family and the dispute that start around them meanwhile they try to follow american dream