A dusty road stretching from the sun-scorched fields to the front lines tears the two sides of America apart. D.W. Griffith’s camera brings the fates of the Stoneman and Cameron families face to face in the midst of a land shaken by the winds of the American Civil War. The sharp dividing lines between North and South deepen even further in the days of devastation that follow the war. Set against the backdrop of a historic epic, in this turbulent era where old friendships turn to enmity, the guns fall silent, yet the shadows continue to lengthen. In the dark streets of the Reconstruction years, the reckonings of the past pave the way for the birth of a new order.