A group of elderly Black men on a Louisiana plantation gather to claim responsibility for the murder of a violent white farmer to protect the young Black man who actually killed him.
Mathu
Sheriff Mapes
Candy Marshall
Lou Dimes
Clatoo
Yank
Booker
Jacob
Coot
Beulah
Charlie
Jameson
Chimley
Uncle Billy
Gable
Griffin
Miss Merle
Luke Will
Fix
Beau
Bea Marshall
Herman
Janey
Aunt Glo
Snookum
Deputy Russell
Leroy
Alcee
Gil
