"Daughters of the Dust" tells the story of a family of 嗄frican-嗄mericans 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."Daughters of the Dust" tells the story of a family of 嗄frican-嗄mericans 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.