Overview
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.
Cast
- Harvey Keitel as Vernon
- Andie MacDowell as Trixie
- Martin Sheen as Narrator (voice)
- John Franklin Sawyer as Shadrach
- Scott Terra as Paul
- Ginnie Randall as Virginia
- Darrell Larson as Father
- Deborah Hedwall as Mother
- Daniel Treat as Little Mole
- Jonathan Parks Jordan as Middle Mole