Idgie and her friend Ruth run the Whistle Stop Café. In the railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, the Café is the gathering place for everyone from Klan members eating in the restaurant to black friends calling at the back door. The story is relayed through the reminiscences of Ninnie Threadgood and her friend, Evelyn Couch. As their anecedotes skip to and fro from the 1920s to the '80s, friendship becomes a force cutting through the boundaries of race and repression. The narrative is sometimes blood-curdling, sometimes comic, but always it conveys real Southern warmth and genuine compassion.
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