A music producer in the South, circa 1957, has two families. One with a white woman in Meridian Mississippi and one with a Negro woman in Birmingham Alabama. His profession allows him to travel allow. His eldest white joins the KKK, his wife is an alcoholic, and his youngest white son feels alone in the world. The son he has with a Negro woman is athletically gifted and his skin is white. His father attempts to get him to pass as white believing it will make things easier for him.