Paul Robert Williams III

Ten members of a cult are willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice to feel the love and acceptance of family. Promised to them, a perfect life in heaven by their comforting and mesmerizing leader who simply goes by "The Guide". The followers willingly accept a holy communion which will send them to their deaths in the most perfect way, martyrdom. But what unravels when there are ten people in a room who all know they are about to die for a cause that they have believed to be true until death comes knocking.

Bennie Upshaw, the head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis, is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to step up and care for his family and tolerate his sardonic sister-in-law, all without a blueprint for success.

Regina Haywood is the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, a working-class neighborhood at the edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse group of officers and detectives, some of whom are reluctant to deploy her creative methods of serving and protecting in the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification.