诺拉•达林是个住在纽约布鲁克林区的年轻黑人妇女。她与三个男人有性关系：体贴但保护过度的杰米；富有但傲慢的格里尔；风趣但幼稚的马斯。三人都想独占她的爱，但诺拉想维持她的独立，拒绝选定一个单一伴侣。三个追求者的急躁——和不安全感——迫使她做出选择，但不久后，她开始怀疑自己是否选择了那个正确的人，甚至怀疑她到底需不需要一…

　　"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 the…