Seth is a youth with artistic leanings, a fascination with Black pop culture, and a dead-end life in an Adirondack village. He's alternatively sensitive and brutal with Kristen, who wants a sexual relationship that he explosively rejects. Late one night, as he's closing the cafe where he works, a young Black man attempts to rob him at gun point but faints from illness. Seth takes the man, Knowledge, an escapee from a nearby prison, to a family cabin where he nurses him and they begin a tentative friendship. When the sheriff learns of Seth's harboring a fugitive, a confrontation looms. Relationships between fathers and their children dominate the subplots.

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母亲去世后，敏感而自卑的黑人男孩Sequan从纽约搬到了杰弗逊镇的叔叔家，开始寄人篱下的生活。这个四处葱翠、带着田园风情的小镇本并不像表面那么安详平和，黑人白人的冲突早已暗潮汹涌。同学的欺辱、表哥的强暴以及叔叔的推辞，另Sequan只有在与问题少女Lori的相处中才能找到心灵慰藉。而Lori将自己的弟弟Jake介绍给Sequan后，更让他感受到了性的萌芽。Jake开启了Sequan人生的另一扇门...