Sugar Cane Alley (1983)

On a lush sugar cane plantation in Martinique lies a dirt road called Sugar Cane Alley, lined with the shacks of the poor black families who work in the cane fields. In one of these lives Jose (Garry Cadenat), a bright, mischievous 11-year-old orphan, and his grandmother, a tough, wise woman determined to save Jose from the hard life of the plantation. When Jose wins a partial scholarship at a school in the city, she is ready to sacrifice everything for his chance at an education an escape from the fields.