Facilities on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, an area Ku Klux Klan chief who reluctantly co-chaired a group summit, battling over the desegregation of colleges in Durham, North Carolina in the course of the racially-charged summer season of 1971. The unimaginable occasions that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis ceaselessly.
