Gee's Bend is an isolated community in a loop on the Alabama River. Virtually an island, it has been called "another civilization". Yet through its isolation, poverty and slavery, its women create what leading art critics have called "some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced". Stephen Evans meets the women of Gee's Bend who sing as they talk as they sew. He finds out how a stratum of American society, who were treated worse than cattle, can smile at their acceptance in the "high art" community.