
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)