Toya Gardner, a young Black artist from Atlanta, has returned to her ancestral home in the North Carolina to trace her family history and complete her graduate thesis. But when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument, she sets her sights on something bigger. Meanwhile, local deputies find a man sleeping in the back of a station wagon. A search of the man's vehicle reveals that he is a high-ranking member of the Klan. After two horrific crimes split the county apart, every soul must wrestle with deep and unspoken secrets that stretch back for generations.
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