A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.