The widow is at a graveyard service for her deceased husband. There, her friend complains about the blistering heat. Soon enough, the man appears and joins the two of them. He reminisces about how the three of them used to play together as kids. (Now, all three of them are board members of the local school board.) The man recalls how wonderful of a history teacher the deceased husband was, but the friend gets angry and chastises him. She says how the deceased husband was passionate about spreading awareness about the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, whereas the man now is a Trump supporter. She blames the deceased husband’s death on him, to which the widow steps in and says that he died because he didn’t take medication for his blood pressure.

At every school board meeting, the woman takes a gun to protect herself, as she’s been getting death threats lately. There, people call her all sorts of names. The woman defends her cause of properly educating young people about black history, but the man pushes back on her for always bringing up race. They argue back and forth, with the woman saying that children need to be educated on historical atrocities committed toward black people, whereas the man says those historical atrocities have nothing to do with their town. Unknowingly, the widow chimes in, saying to let it burn.

Lately, the widow has had her reality distorted by grief. The passage of time is unclear to her, and she doesn’t remember what she said in past conversations. At her house, the woman tells the widow that she should get checked out for Alzheimer’s. The widow talks about how she sees the 1985 MOVE bombing in her dreams. Together, they recall how the deceased husband tried to pass a motion for a day of remembrance of the 1985 MOVE bombing, which is why the town is in such uproar at the school board meetings now. They then talk some more, talking about whether or not the man will come around to supporting the motion.

At the next school board meeting, the tiebreak vote on the motion is scheduled to happen. During the public comment period, residents come and go, explicating their various positions on the matter. One man, a sugarcane farm owner, steps up to the podium. He says that the MOVE members are not the sort of black people whom the town should be memorializing, to which the woman argues, saying that they were still black people murdered in cold blood by the city of Philadelphia. Even the widow chimes in, saying that a neighborhood was unjustly burned down.

Eventually, the school board is brought to a vote. The tiebreak vote is broken by the man, and the motion is not passed. The room bursts into uproar. Everyone is up in arms, knocking over chairs and trying to make their way to the school board members. The man and the woman are arguing among themselves. Eventually, a gunshot rings. The man is killed by a bullet in his chest. Soon enough, the widow, still in a daze, realizes that she herself shot him. Amidst the growing chaos, the woman snatches the gun from her, telling her not to worry.