A romanticized account of the real story about the 1928 marriage of W.E.B. Du Bois’s daughter Yolande to one of Harlem’s most celebrated poets, Countee Cullen. The marriage was said to have marked the height of the Harlem Renaissance as it created a soical celebration around the perfect union of black talent and beauty. Secrets are revealed and truths come to light as we discover the scandal that rocked the renaissance.