In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.
as David Dickson
as Amanda Dickson
as Julia
as Charles Dubose
as Elizabeth Dickson
as Rutherford
as Henry Dickson
as Doctor Lovick
as Lt. Brooks
as Ruth
as Judge Stevens
as Amanda (age 10)
as Amanda (age 5)
as Young Boy
as Silvester
as Matron
as Judge Cottner
as Jury Foreman
as Court Clerk
as Hotel Clerk
as Joshua (uncredited)
as Henry's Son (uncredited)
