The past is always present in American life, and so it is in the town of Natchez, Mississippi. After generations of showcasing its antebellum homes and hoop-skirted docents, Natchez is now reckoning with a romanticized past, an uncertain future, and the debt it owes to the descendants of enslaved people. A cinematic portrait of a tourist town at a crossroads, Suzannah Herbert’s NATCHEZ follows an array of historic homeowners, activists, and tour guides as they tell their versions of the past, and clash over who gets to tell America’s story.