Imagine, if you will, a new America.
A country where people are happy, tolerant, fulfilled and striving for a better tomorrow. A country where people no longer fear being persecuted, marginalised, or being killed “accidentally” by the police.
Imagine, if you will, a new America — where every single white person has committed suicide, leaving people of colour to remake the country into one of their choosing.
Yup, pretty provocative stuff …
The story (loosely) follows the new beginnings of Charlie Brunton — released from prison after serving twenty years after being falsely accused of rape, into a United States where (almost) every white person has walked into the nearest body of water and drowned.
Charlie is working as an engineering lecturer at Howard University, when he gets a phone call from Sidney, the daughter he didn’t know existed.
Sidney needs his help: she wants to head south to Alabama — where she’ll find the last enclave of white people left in the country.
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