In the near future, the United States has set aside designated areas for each group of ethnic minorities. Citing its history of oppression and discrimination, the government created these areas to be fully autonomous cultural conversation units where white people are strictly kept out. The areas are regulated by the DECC, department of ethnic and cultural conservation. Peaches and her brother, Roosevelt, are young dancers who have spent their whole lives in the Eastern Black cultural conservation unit. Although they are happy to call the unit home, Trevette, a close friend of the siblings, invites them to leave with her. She feels confined as a dancer and wants to explore the world. She also brings up her grandfather’s disdain for the units and his comparison of them to past internment camps and segregation. The DECC has recently sent out a mandate for cultural units to send their sexual health waste, such as condoms and even tampons. Although they say it is for historical records, they know it is an encroaching form of micromanagement. Peaches strongly considers Trevette’s offer and relates to her feelings about being limited. She talks with Roosevelt about the idea, but he feels differently and is content staying home. Although they have always done everything together, Roosevelt encourages Peaches to go on her own. He suddenly goes missing after their talk, and Peaches desperately searches for him at police stations and hospitals. After everyone reminds her that he is a grown man with his own life, Peaches agrees to officially leave the culture unit with Trevette. Right after the air transport picks them up, Trevette hands her a letter from Roosevelt explaining that he went missing so she could let him go and act independently.