In 1935, ninety-nine-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie, and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.
1998
HD
88min
PG-13
United States
English
Susanna Styron
Harvey Keitel
Andie MacDowell
Ginnie Randall
John Franklin Sawyer
Scott Terra
Deborah Hedwall
Darrell Larson
Martin Sheen
Daniel Treat
slavery
slave
woman director
virginia
racial segregation
