In 1935, 99-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.
as Vernon
as Trixie
as Narrator (voice)
as Shadrach
as Paul
as Virginia
as Father
as Mother
as Little Mole
as Middle Mole
as Lucinda
as Captain
as Cloris
as Edmonia
as Smut
as Dock Worker
as Joe Thorton
as Seddon Washington
as Preacher
