Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.

During the Civil War, a self-centered, young Southern belle tries to hold onto the family estate when the Union Army takes over the area.

Several people volunteer for a scientific experiment about mind-reading and memory, but the experiment goes horribly wrong.