Not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, a black man he doesn't recognise calls out to him. To Kelly's shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly's closest friends in high school - before his disappearance nearly 20 years before, he was white. Martin then tells an astonishing story: after years of immersing himself in black culture, he's had a plastic surgeon perform 'racial reassignment surgery'. Now, however, Martin wants Kelly to help him ignite a controversy that will help sell racial reassignment surgery worldwide.