Driving Miss Daisy

The year is 1948, the place is Atlanta, and Miss Daisy Werthen has just demolished her car. Her son Boolie responds by hiring her a driver, Hoke Colburn. What begins as a pairing of necessity develops into an often complex but ultimately life-altering friendship, demonstrating that the commonalities that unite us are stronger than the differences that divide us. Driving Miss Daisy is a beloved story of the transformative power of friendship and addresses what it meant to be Jewish, Black, and elderly in the changing American South of the mid-twentieth century.