Sweet Song

An archetypal American story of self-discovery, set against the turmoil of post-Civil War America.

Sweet Song tells the story of the mixed-race son of a white landowner and a black house servant. Leon, raised black but an outcast from both cultures, finds himself suddenly on his own—and passing for white.

Wrestling with a divided heritage in a world where honesty, even with friends, might prove fatal, he falls in with dispossessed thieves, mill workers, saloonkeepers, musicians, businessmen...