What if you were given the power to change the course of history?
Alabama, 1955. Avery Aldridge is an ordinary young Black man. A decorated World War II veteran, Avery provides for his wife and daughter.
But wounds of the past have a way of coming back, and Avery Aldridge will soon discover he is anything but ordinary...
After a run-in awakens strange new abilities, Avery's about to become more powerful than he could have ever dared to dream... in a country and society that never wanted ...
Does even the kindness of strangers come with a cost?
Avery has adjusted to his post WWII life in Alabama but when an altercation with some local boys leaves him hurt, an unlikely bystander steps in.
And while Carlisle, a white university doctor, not only offers Avery immediate first aid but free ongoing medical care... nothing is truly free, not even a stranger's kindness.