by Andrew Olthuis
synopsis
In 1935, Paul leaves his mundane middle-class life to become friends with the lower-class Dabney's, once aristocratic plantation owners. When 99-year-old former slave Shadrach shows up after walking from Alabama to Virginia, he requests that his burial be on Virginia soil, a request that stirs racist attitudes.
characteristics
- Sleeper
- High Production Values
- Race Relations
- Plantation
- Racism
- Racist
- Social Injustice
- Burial
- Only Human
- Childhood
- Class Differences
- Friend
- Bigot
- Great-Depression
- Bootleg
