Sarah Rector is an 11-year-old black girl born in the Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900, when the oil barons ruled. Due to her heritage, she gets a land grant. While most such land grants are useless to the recipients, Sarah has a hunch that there is oil on her land.

She is smart, educated and courageous. First she has to convince her parents that she wants to find oil. Then she has to find partners who help her drill for it. It’s not an easy undertaking for a young girl, and many wolves and sharks try to swindle her out of her property. Eventually, when they are not successful, they start to threaten crimes. But she prevails, and at age 11 she becomes a millionaire and gets fame as “the richest colored girl in the world.”

Supposedly this movie is based on a true story. Much of the way her life is portrayed in the movie is dramatization, but the core elements are true. The real Sarah did move to Kansas City and lived a wealthy life. But this is not told in the movie: she lost much of her wealth again in the Great Depression.

This is a feel-good movie where we see the underdog prevail, and deservedly so.