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In 1950s Harlem, widower Russell Parker runs a failing barbershop while his daughter Adele supports the family and his sons Theo and Bobby are unemployed. Theo persuades Russell to join a bootlegging scheme with crime boss Blue Haven; as the business succeeds, Bobby turns to burglary and Russell steals from the profits to court a young woman. Their attempts to escape poverty unravel, while Russell retreats into memories of his vaudeville past.
In 1927 San Juan Hill, Caribbean immigrant Joseph Barton, a follower of Marcus Garvey, discovers that his daughter Annetta loves Eustace Baylor, an uneducated African-American man from the rural South. Their relationship exposes conflicts between Caribbean immigrants and African Americans.
In 1950s Harlem, widower Russell Parker runs a failing barbershop while his daughter Adele supports the family and his sons Theo and Bobby are unemployed. Theo persuades Russell to join a bootlegging scheme with crime boss Blue Haven; as the business succeeds, Bobby turns to burglary and Russell steals from the profits to court a young woman. Their attempts to escape poverty unravel, while Russell retreats into memories of his vaudeville past.
In 1927 San Juan Hill, Caribbean immigrant Joseph Barton, a follower of Marcus Garvey, discovers that his daughter Annetta loves Eustace Baylor, an uneducated African-American man from the rural South. Their relationship exposes conflicts between Caribbean immigrants and African Americans.