James Baldwin, a celebrated Black author, revisits his experiences in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, offering his perceptive and brilliant reflections on the events of the past two decades. He journeys from Selma, Birmingham, and Atlanta to the beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe, and then north to Newark to meet Amiri Baraka. Baldwin exposes the illusion of progress in America after the Civil Rights era, questioning the fate of those involved and lamenting the lives irrevocably damaged during the fight for freedom.