I den amerikanske borgerkrigs sidste dage må de to sydstatskvinder Louise (Hailee Steinfeld) og Augusta (Brit Marling) kæmpe for at forsvare deres hjem og sig selv mod en flok uregerlige soldater anført af den brutale Moses (Sam Worthington), der er stukket af fra Unionens hastigt fremrykkende hær. Sammen må de forsvare deres hjem og hinanden mod de professionelle soldaters nådesløse angreb.

This short film chronicles the importance of cotton to the economy and culture of America's Old South.

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.