纽约侦探约翰·夏福特英勇强悍，他受命办理哈林区角头老大女儿的绑架案，却也因此和所有黑帮为敌。各路人马的对决，一触即发！

　　广播人大卫为了哥哥杰森建造海岛乐园而出现在亚特兰大。浮夸奢靡的杰森能完成他的梦想，让曾罹患忧郁症的大卫受惠吗？幸运之神会眷顾他们吗？他是否能走出阴霾，再创人生新高峰吗?

　　"Daughters of the Dust" tells the story of a family of African-Americans who have lived for many years on a Southern offshore island, and of how they come together one day in 1902 to celebrate their ancestors before some of them leave for the North. The film is narrated by an unborn child, and ancestors already dead also seem to be as present as the living.