In 1940, author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt his best-selling book, Native Son, into a Broadway play. Days from opening night, they differ over a single page of the script.
To escape an abusive husband, Briella flees to the small town of Maple Creek, where she finds out that small town magic is big fun and big trouble.
Local rapper Kamus Leonardo's world is upended upon the sudden death of his girlfriend Destiny. To make matters worse he's hanging out with a panda bear.
As Diondre Howell re-adjusts to civilian life and struggles to cope with the scars of the Iraq war, he increasingly becomes a threat to those he cares about the most – his family.