In an attempt to mend her family's generational trauma, a young Black girl embarks on a four-day therapeutic retreat that will end in reconnecting with their enslaved ancestors.

A series of interconnected vignettes and characters explores themes of race, incarceration, family, heartbreak, and love.

As he reflects on a murder perpetrated by his father, a college professor considers the history of his family and how race and violence intersect.

In 2018, a pedestrian on the New York City’s Lower East Side witnesses a young Black couple in love, prompting a consideration about the storytelling, hope, and Nelson Mandela.

A young man secretly fathers a child that he grooms from afar to be the perfect child he can use as a control in his experiment comparing the white experience and the Black experience.

A writer reflects on his mother’s incredible strength, which he depicts in a short story. However, his mother does not approve of the piece as he had hoped, and he soon makes an important discovery.

A Black teenage mother wants to visit her daughter's father, but she struggles to get her family to help watch the baby at home.

A young white girl takes on responsibility for repaying Black people in America back for their suffering under slavery after hearing a gospel choir sing.

A young Black girl confronts her overbearing mother's poverty and her lack of a father when she is coerced into attending a program intended to make her a "professional" member of society who can break the cycle of poverty.

The racism a Black, working-class couple faces at work during the Harlem Renaissance spills over into their relationship in violent ways.