Durham, North Carolina, 1971. C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, is pitted against African-American Civil Rights worker Ann Atwater in a fight over desegregation in the schools. An explosive, moving new drama from the playwright of the acclaimed Freud’s Last Session.
“One of the most moving love stories I’ve ever come across… in a time of bleakness, it sounds a note of hope.” – Studs Terkel