Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.
Keywords: 1910s , african-american-history , based-on-true-story , black-history , chemist , hawaii , leper-colony , leprosy , short-film