When Delore and Vivienne, French Catholic immigrants, open a successful restaurant in a rural Iowa town in the 1920s, they become tormented by the KuKluxKlan. Fearing for their three teenage daughters, they are forced to confront the hidden prejudice of their community as they fight for the wellbeing of their family.

After receiving 40-acres, an ex-slave family battles man and myth to uncover the truth behind their land.