Manderlay

In 1933, a young woman named Grace discovers an Alabama plantation where slavery persists, roughly 70 years after the American Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. As she navigates the complex web of social hierarchy and power dynamics, Grace's idealistic vision of equality and freedom is slowly dismantled by the harsh realities of the plantation life, leading her to confront the dark underbelly of racism and oppression.