Cottonseed Studios

White Water is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from the "white's only" drinking fountain and sets out on a quest to do the unthinkable: drink from it.

A principal was called on to rescue a critically broken school. Ten years later, she is now working on her second socially and academically failing high school with a high dropout rate and riddled with crime, drugs, sex and teenage pregnancy.