A boy grows up in the segregated South, experiencing both the love and support of his tightly-knit "colored" community, and the bigotry and intolerance of outsiders.
While England is threatened by rebellion, the king's son haunts the taverns of London with a crew of rogues and thieves led by the dissolute knight, Sir John Falstaff, but the Earl of Northumber and his son scheme to overthrow King Henry IV.
Tells the true story of Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land.