Two women are both brought together and separated by race throughout the course of their lives in this chronicle of a complicated friendship.

A white Peace Corps volunteer talks with a Cameroonian passenger in a ship bar on a voyage from Africa to Europe about tensions between white and Black people on the European and African continents. What starts out as a small disagreement grows into a shocking interaction that leaves the volunteer unsure of his future.

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