Keisha has lost her family to racism. Her partner was taken first, beaten within an inch of his life by police officers and incarcerated for "resisting arrest." Supporting her child on her own, Keisha enrolled her young son in the local elementary school, only to find similar horrors awaited. On the verge of bankruptcy, the school's all-white teaching staff are often abusive and physically violent towards the majority-black student population. Determined to give her son a better life, Keisha forges documentation of her residence in the affluent neighborhood of Berkeley, ensuring her child will attend the first school system in the nation to racially integrate students. After wading through a paperwork nightmare, Keisha victoriously enrolls her son in Frederick Douglass Elementary. When they arrive for the first day of class, they're greeted by a beautiful building, kind staff, and signs saying "Every Month is Black History Month." Keisha walks her child to his classroom, only to be met with an unpleasant surprise. Every student in the first integrated school system in the country is white.