On September 9, 1957, sixteen first graders became the first black children to integrate into Nashville schools. Early the next morning, an explosion erupted through a wall of one of those schools, shocking a community and taking with it the life of a young mother.A lifetime later, Rose Clark remembers her mother's death in the aftermath of a similarly shocking event: yet another shooting of an unarmed black man by a police officer. Has anything changed, she wonders? And what did her mother die for, really? With the guidance of her grandfather's journal, Rose pieces together her family's history as it intertwined with the desegregation movement in Nashville. From her parents' first meeting on the night that Brown v. Board of Education passed, to her mother's senseless murder the night after desegregation commenced, Rose's looks back at her past with duelings senses of celebration and heartbreak.Inspired by true events, In Bloom is the story of a woman's reconciliation of her family's history with one of the most historically important and culturally tumultuous eras of American history. And finds hope in a moment that simultaneously brought a community together and tore her family apart.