Eve's House

Ruby and Elinor are alike in their dark skin, charm, natural intelligence, and desperate drive to get an education and make a career. Only Ruby is trying to break free from outright poverty and dreams of college, while Elinor, a Howard University student ready to work in the library of her school for days on end, decides on a tougher problem: how to slip into Washington’s elite circles. However, Ruby’s and Elinor’s paths cross in the “House of Eve,” a shelter for unmarried mothers, when both girls fall for “the wrong men”—because, in the opinion of American society of the 1950s, poor Black girls have no right to pursue white men… Trapped in a hopeless situation, both heroines are forced to make fateful decisions…