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Carmel (Gabrielle Union) is a black
woman who never stopped loving the white man who broke her heart. When Carmel
passes away the entire family returned to Huntsville, Alabama to pay their final
respects. Coming together isn't easy for the Boxer family though, and for family
patriarch Helms (Billy Dee Williams) in particular, the painful memories of an
unrequited interracial love affair are something that he would rather just
forget. As the revelations about Carmel's past prompt each family member to take
stock of their pent up emotions and reevaluate their feelings about one another,
the changing racial fabric of both society and his family prompts the troubled
Helms to confront the inner demons that have tormented him for decades. In the
end it's the redemptive power of love and the honesty of family that will help
to inspire healing in a group whose hearts had been held hostage to their
turbulent history for far too long.
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