The film addresses issues of racism in the Jim Crow American South. Themes of racial injustice, racial violence, working-class solidarity dominate the film. It depicts black men working in a field, walking in chains, sitting behind bars, and being executed in an electric chair. In most scenes, a white authority figure is seen whipping or guarding the men.
A young girl is traveling from Siberia to Moscow in order to get help with the mink farm she is working in and which is suffering under incompetent management.
Three soldiers make their way into a city occupied by the Nazis.
