Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett), a 10-year-old girl, lives in a prosperous Creole-American community in Louisiana with her younger brother Poe (Jake Smollett) and her older sister Cisely (Meagan Good), a pretty girl who is just entering puberty.

• Eves Bayou
• Samuel L Jackson
• Jurnee Smollett-Bell
• Meagan Good
• Kasi Lemmons