Sasha Jean arrives at a family reunion in North Carolina and finds comfort only in her cousin Monique. All of her uncles pester her about her father, whom the family has not seen for years. They do not know that Bobby Lee, Sasha Jean's father, has died and left Sasha Jean the very land on which they stand. This land was once Sasha Jean's grandmother's, and she left it to Bobby Lee when she died, a fact which Bobby Lee told no one. When Bobby Lee died, he bestowed the thirty-seven acres to his favorite daughter. He refers to all of the other family members as sluts and good-for-nothings. He instructed Sasha Jean to tear down the house on the land and build a new one. Sasha Jean's mother, Elspeth, was a white woman, and her father was a Black man. Elspeth, from Germany, met Bobby Lee during the war. Bobby Lee convinced her to move to the United States with him. All Elspeth brought with her to the U.S. was the china her family would have given to her on her wedding day. Elspeth stole the china from her mother, who did not know she planned to leave the country for a Black American. When Sasha Jean was little, Bobby Lee molested her. When the sexual abuse ceased, the young girl told her mother about it. Elspeth said she would leave Bobby Lee, but she never got around to it — she died of heart failure at a young age. Sasha Jean stayed as far away from her father as possible and was not present when he died. At the reunion, Sasha Jean spends time with her cousins Meggie and Monique, as well as Monique's girlfriend Kate. The women jump into a lake together, and Sasha Jean considers telling her cousins about the will. However, she enjoys her time with the women too much and does not want to ruin it. When they ask, Sasha Jean lets her cousins know that she's not sure what her father will do with the land, but she's sure it's nothing bad.