An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.

Charlie Banks is a black, unemployed Watts resident. At home most of the day, Banks gets on the nerves of his wife and three children. One evening, while getting some…

Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was…