soskin's memoir. bryan: she eventually did sing again, backed up by a full symphony orchestra and a choir of 200 people. joe: the film delves into soskin's back story, how she and her husband opened reid's records in berkeley, which became the country's longest-running black music store. betty: we were the first family of color in walnut creek. joe: it details the family's move to walnut creek in the '50s, where it was met with extreme racism and even death threats. in that dark period, soskin had a breakdown. she turned to her old martin guitar and wrote herself through the pain. bryan: she says in the documentary that her music saved her. betty: but the music saved me. it really did. di'ara reid: music was really therapeutic for her after her nervous breakdown. bryan: betty's probably, like, 25 there. joe: soskin's daughter, di'ara reid, is working with gibel to tell the story of her mother who is now 102 and mostly homebound. di'ara: it's an important film to make because it's another way of gettin