一户人家讲述了自己的儿子被谋杀的场景。而谋杀他儿子的人就住在街道的另一边。直到今天依然权力在握,没有人敢于去追究他的责任,也没有人敢于去杀了他报仇。在官方的报道中,侩子手成为了英雄,而英雄,又成为了这个时代的传说。在沉默中,家庭在哀嚎,而事实又消于隐匿……。"Daughters of the Dust" tells the story of a family of African-Americans who have lived for many years on a Southern offshore island, and of how they come together one day in 1902 to celebrate their ancestors before some of them leave for the North. The film is narrated by an unborn child, and ancestors already dead also seem to be as present as the living.。