This movie adaptation of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Beloved, tells the story of Sethe, a mother and former slave who's tormented by her unspeakable past despite already being as free as post-Civil War society allows her to be. This manifests itself in the form of an angry poltergeist that haunts Sethe's home and causes her three children to run away. Much like the characters in Passing, Sethe can't escape the psychological effects of systemic racism.