The last in Camille Billops' family trilogy in which she turns the camera to four generations of men in her family and considers why their fathers died so young.
Write Billops and Hatch: "Even as late as a hundred years ago, discrimination on the basis of race was considered a natural and even desirable trait for humans to possess. We Americans have tried to ignore it, deny it, suppress it, to contain it, tolerate it, legislate it, mock it, exploit it." Billops and Hatch are catalysts at the center of the film, and like a modern Virgil and Dante, they drive, cajole and lead the film's cast through a tour of the contemporary landscape of racism.
Using interviews and dramatizations, this film achieves a touching and often humorous look at social attitudes towards relationships between older women and younger men. The filmmakers are involved on both sides of the camera as they direct their multi-racial cast in an insightful profile of older-younger relationships. Their subjects are candid and comfortable discussing the joys and problems of loving someone of a different generation.
아버지로부터 수년간 신체적, 정신적 학대를 받은 흑인 여성 수잰은 자기 파괴로부터 벗어나기 위해 아버지의 폭력, 그리고 똑같이 폭행에 시달렸던 어머니의 수동적 공모를 이해해야 하는 상황에 놓인다. 수년간의 침묵 끝에 수잰과 어머니는 자신들이 겪은 고통스러운 과거를 마침내 공유할 수 있게 된다.
