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In West Jackson, Mississippi, Richard, a high school senior, grapples with the allure of the streets and the fading dream of a college education. Raised amid the challenges of his neighborhood, Richard's flicker of ambition refuses to extinguish. When an enigmatic white family moves in across the street, the arrival of Emily, their daughter, becomes a catalyst for unlikely connections.

The New Jersey bar scene is a big deal. Ocean Avenue is full of them.... Who could be found there, and why would they go there? The list is endless, but we all agree to go there to have fun, hang out with our neighbors, and have a beverage where usually no mixed drinks are allowed! In most cases, you can only have brown liquor or white liquor. It's a place where everybody knows your name. Come on in, my seat is in the corner on the right in the dark...but hey, I look good.

Northern-educated physician Kenneth Harper moves back to his hometown in Georgia with a relatively modest goal: he wants to start his own medical practice. He hopes that racist prejudices have relaxed enough to allow room for someone like him, but the local presence of the Ku Klux Klan offers some sense of how little the community has actually changed. In response to that reality, Harper seeks to liberate local sharecroppers from white landowners via a cooperative society - but that’s something the area’s ruling class simply cannot abide.