Adjunct Professor Nalini is a finalist for her dream teaching job when she is called in by the Provost and learns that a student has filed a complaint against her for teaching a classic text of the Harlem Renaissance that features a violent lynching. 

Worse still, the Provost, a Black woman, turns out to be Nalini’s estranged friend from high school. Racial and class resentments arise when unresolved issues resurface, and their personal attachments inflame their professional roles. Ultimately, the two women are forced to confront whether some stories are too dangerous to teach in today’s politically and racially riven climate.