Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths. Within Our Gates was created in response to The Birth of a Nation which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from blood thirsty blacks. Micheaux shows the reality of Dixie racism in 1920, where a black man could be lynched for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Nature takes over when Ben (24) and his father Willem (52) decide to join a group of professional snowboarders to a remote mountain, bringing out their hidden grievances, silent connection and deep instinctual drive to help each other survive.
