- In a wordless story with semi-surreal stage sets, a poor black man ventures from his ramshackle rural home to the big city, where a dancing girl in a dive two-times him. He returns to his home and wife's arms.
- Through song and dance, the story of the the lives of the residents of Yamekraw, a rural primarily black and poor settlement on the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia, is told. The story focuses on a young couple in love, they who decide to get married. To support their new married life, the husband travels into the big city, where the temptations are many. The question becomes whether their marriage can survive both the separation and the temptations he faces while away.—Huggo
- A jazz soundtrack, wordless script, and montage of live action and German Expressionist graphics convey, as the title card says, "a negro rhapsody - the moods and emotional side of negro life," telling the story of a man leaving his sweetheart and the settlement of Yamekraw on the outskirts of Savannah, taking the train north, finding a city life of clubs and barbershops, and discovering false love. How will he respond?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
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