In the quiet depths of a library, Norma, a young black woman, finds in a book on the Civil War a picture that propels her into memories of her great, great grandfather’s lynching and its effects through generations including her unhappy marriage to a white man and her cousin Joseph’s fall into the underworld and his desperate love affair with a rival drug dealer, Malik. Yet within everything is the power that gives birth to the ultimate love.
In the quiet depths of a library, Norma, a young black woman, finds in a book on the Civil War a picture that propels her into memories of her great, great grandfather’s lynching and its effects through generations including her unhappy marriage to a white man and her cousin Joseph’s fall into the underworld and his desperate love affair with a rival drug dealer, Malik. Yet within everything is the power that gives birth to the ultimate love.