
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.
Vernon

Trixie

Narrator (voice)

Shadrach
Paul

Virginia
Father

Mother

Little Mole
Middle Mole

Lucinda

Captain
