An exploration of how an upwardly mobile black family navigates racial prejudice and marital stress in 1970s Connecticut.
Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to move his wife and their two kids out of their mixed lower-middle-class town and into the posh enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut.
Ernest R. Dickerson
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