Jackson, Mississippi, November 22, 1967. On the night before Thanksgiving, a Black mother and a Jewish mother are making pies, forging a tentative alliance as they grapple with the recent revelation that their children are dating. Each fears what this will mean, as the world rages and burns around them. Occasionally interrupted by the white preacher's wife from across the street (who seems increasingly agitated), the action of the play takes place in Bea’s home, near the city’s only synagogue, which was recently bombed by the KKK. In this imagined story, Bea lives next door to Rabbi Perry and Arene Nussbaum - and that night, another bomb is about to go off.