Constellation 2007

When the beloved Carmel Boxer passes away, her entire family returns to Huntsville, Ala., to celebrate her life and legacy. As the Boxer family comes together for the first time in many years, revelations of Carmel's painful past begin to force each person to address their pent up emotions and true feelings for one another. The story chronicles the lives and loves of this African-American family as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family patriarch, Helm Boxer, must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family.