Silvester
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.
Collin
Loretta Sinclair (Alfre Woodard) es una mujer al borde de la autodestrucción en un peligroso barrio de Chicago, donde el tráfico de drogas y la violencia están a la orden del día. Sin embargo, una oportunidad de renacer se le presenta cuando es acogida por su tío Earl (Al Freeman Jr.) en el hogar ancestral de la familia Sinclair en una pequeña población rural de Mississipi. Loretta descubrirá el valor de la familia y recuperará su autoestima. Esta película marca el debut tras las cámaras de la aclamada autora afroamericana Maya Angelou.
