During the 1930s pioneering black linguist Lorenzo Turner found that a Gullah burial song from the rice plantations of the southeastern United States came from 18th century Africa. This program tells the story of the song, of contemporary scholars Joe Op ala and Cynthia Schmidt, who found an old woman in a remote Mende village of Sierra Leone who knew the song, and of a meeting between these American and African kinfolk. Produced and directed by Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano; narrated by Vertamae Grove nsor.