In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
![Porgy and Bess 2008-09 [Teaser PBS]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9OV8JItvXSo/maxresdefault.jpg)
