His condemned life as a third-generation slave meant laboring in the hot sun under harsh conditions and under he threat of whips and death.Plot SynopsisThe film opens with its most famous sequence.It""s an audacious, incredible, breathtaking, three-minute, uninterrupted crane tracking shot under the credits (appearing superimposed on he left of the screen).Michaeleen learns that the ""six-foot four and a half"" American is from "Pittsburgh." At a little stone bridge crossing a stream, Sean pauses, looks toward a small thatched cottage in the distance, and listens in his mind o his deceased mother""s gentle voice reminiscing to him as a child about her memories of her past life in the village - the location of his birth and youth where she grew roses:Don""t yourememberSeannie and how it was? The road led up past the chapel and it wound and it wound.[Note: the gift of a fedora was an acknowledgement by writer Kasdan of the film""s noirish roots in 1940s crime dramas.