Samuel Tyne is a Ghanaian immigrant living in Calgary with his wife Maud, and his 13-year-old twin girls, when he unexpectedly inherits his uncle's crumbling mansion in Aster, Alberta. At first, Aster seems perfect to Samuel, the formerly all-black town represents the return to a communal, idyllic way of life. But he soon discovers the town's problems. As his ambitions intensify, the life he has struggled so hard to improve begins to disintegrate around him, and a dark current of menace in the town is turned upon the Tyne family.
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