This poetic film is a cinematic adaptation of a magical folktale, which uses the period of American slavery, as a stage to show how people can survive and overcome the most extreme experiences by the power of their own will. In the film, a group of slaves on a South Carolina cotton plantation learn that people in Africa practice magic, and have developed the ability to fly. This idea of transcendence is a necessity for human existence in times when there is nothing else to believe in. Here, our protagonist holds on to this magical belief, and it changes the group’s shackled lives.