It starts with organizers preparing the Black community for the Charleston Hospital Strike. Then we're on a tobacco plantation, where the slaves prepare to escape. Next we're in a middle-class home, where the Black children open their Christmas gifts.
When the truth and the legend conflict, says the old movie-making saw, you print the legend. Sometimes you can print both. This compelling mixture of documentary and scripted film shows the audience both, with a very human message: we have lives and children or hopes of children, and we want more. For us, yes, but for them even more. When the message is so simple and universal, you don't have to choose between the truth and the legend. The legend becomes true because it's always been true.
