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Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.

This Civil War-era melodrama trades typical battlefield heroics for the messy, personal wreckage of a family losing its fortune. Sidney Poitier shines in a breakout performance that provides a necessary, grounded perspective amidst the swirling social chaos of the South.

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