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https://humanehollywood.org/app/uploads/2020/02/o6nWcNgfut1zjv4klJ8sML3ouTU.jpg580859The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is a very depressing story set in the old South, of Miss Amelia, the owner of the delapidated Cafe. The story portrays the severe struggle of everyday life in these hard times. Life itself seems to be almost unbearable. Amelia, a very manly woman, runs a small tobacco plantation. She also runs a still and pays her men with the home-made liquor. One day Lymon Willis, a dwarf, wanders into town. The townsfolk call him the "broke-back". Lymon claims to be Miss Amelia's cousin so she agrees to take him in. Lymon convinces Amelia to fix up the Cafe and open it for business. Everyone begins to frequent the Cafe and they actually find a little happiness in their gloomy existences. That is until they receive word that Marvin Macy, Amelia's ex-husband, is returning to town from his prison term. Marvin is bent on revenge, and returns to town with the sole purpose of ruining Amelia's life. The remaining story leads us through Marvin's wicked rampage.