Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.
Taraji P. Henson
as Ann Atwater
Sam Rockwell
as Claiborne Paul Ellis
Babou Ceesay
as Bill Riddick
Anne Heche
as Mary Ellis
Wes Bentley
as Floyd Kelly
Nick Searcy
as Garland Keith
Bruce McGill
as Carvie Oldham
John Gallagher Jr.
as Lee Trombley
Nicholas Logan
as Wiley Yates
Gilbert Glenn Brown
as Howard Clement
Caitlin Mehner
as Maddy Mays
Dolan Wilson
as Councilman Bill Atkins
