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.
After calling it quits with her former pimp, a young prostitute thinks of a way to earn some quick money to leave town.
Chester Chapman--the host of America's #1 news talk show--faces censorship from the authoritarian government his show helped inspire.