In the mid-20th century, a young white boy comes to understand the complexities of interracial relationships as he witnesses the mix of hostility and affection that members of his mother's side of the family feel towards one of her Black friends from high school.

While experiencing a midlife crisis, a respectable man must choose between his wife and his commitment to an eccentric political party.

In the early 1970s, a listless radical must decide what to do with his life as his social circle of grassroots activists dwindles.

Two men on opposites sides of a civil war wonder what they are fighting for as the flames of destruction spread across the country and alien forces are exposed.

As an old woman revisits her family's quintessentially American history, she finds a way to respect and love her parents, despite the scandals and tragedies they endured.

A woman struggles with shaky faith and emotional isolation from her son, which intensify when she goes to see him in prison. After one particularly difficult visit, she faces her fears with her brother’s help.

Struggling to write a letter to her old, formidable Mississippian aunt, a woman considers her shame, guilt, exhaustion, and trauma in her Philadelphia apartment that is far from her family and her childhood home.

A Polish man living in America who inherits the title of Count after his parents' death has spent his life studying and teaching political philosophy in Chicago. His formal and aristocratic habits stick out among Americans, and when he begins dating one of his students, a young Jewish woman and a divorcee, he wonders if he can ever truly change his ways.

After struggling to appeal to their state governor, a dysfunctional family anxiously awaits the public execution of a relative. As they wait at home new of the execution, tensions and strife erupt in a dispute over the relative's innocence.

A white reverend has given up a considerable amount of his good life to support a Black political campaign.