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

A man in jail who killed his sister because he was worried her baby would not be fully white is questioned by a visitor.

When a young black man from the Bronx unwittingly becomes an accomplice to the murder of a police officer, he must protect the murderer (his best friend) and flee the life he used to know.

A man imprisoned for murdering his brother drifts between his visiting wife, his memories of life outside, and his friends in prison as he struggles to find meaning in his captivity -- in everyone's captivity.

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.

After three years of being attacked with racism and hatred, a Black man decides to put his coworker in his place.

Torn between the demands of being a mother, keeping a home, and working a job as a prison officer, a woman struggles to make ends meet.

A father witnesses fish floating in mid-air for nearly a minute on the lake near his home, and suspects strange goings on in the mountain just beyond it. When his son mysteriously vanishes from prison without a trace, the father endeavors into the mountain to get answers.

A man incarcerated for murder navigates his time behind bars and his reintroduction to the world after being released.

After his cellmate and sexual partner leaves for parole, an inmate forms a new relationship and moves into a room with three other men, but he struggles to adapt to this new life, which involves a whole new set of expectations.