After Chioma publishes a scathing article in her college newspaper's opinion section about the apathy among first-generation African Americans, her friend Ogechi calls her to task for throwing "her people" under the bus.

As two first generation Nigerian-Americans, Chioma and Ogechi argue over what it means to be in solidarity with Black Americans as they relentlessly interrogate what blackness means for diasporic people and the historical constructions of blackness.