Quintin Humphrey

Aaron Edmond III, a Black American, relocates to his hometown in a rural part of Texas to write a play about the white ranchers who stole the family’s tract of land called No. 1 White James McGahey in 1927. After Aaron discovers his grandmother’s journal revealing an interracial love affair, he changes the focus of his script to write about the affair. As Aaron writes the script, he unearths certain truths and secrets surrounding the land and his tragic connection to the land, which may explain his attraction to his white husband.

A black couple in Washington DC is getting ready to go out to dinner; however, they discover that they do not have working cell phones.

A black man is trying to buy groceries at a CVS wearing a bandana as mask at the beginning of the pandemic and the white female clerk thinks he is a robber.

Seven years ago, on Easter Sunday, the Sellers family met for the last time in a small country town outside of Houston, Texas. Amanda Sellers, an ingenious black minister, ousts her gay son, Justin, from home, pointing a 38 Smith & Wesson pistol in his face because he confesses that Lyon his sister's boyfriend raped him in the family’s barn.

October seven years later, the Sellers family congregates again, summoned by Amanda for a family portrait because she believes that she is dying. Christina, Amanda's eldest child, is eager to participate in the portrait to ensure her inheritance and to discover what happened to cause her brother to leave. Amanda still believes that Justin's rape is a fabrication, but she invites him anyway, knowing that Lyon will be in attendance. To Amanda's dismay, Justin brings his new German husband Dietmar to remind his mother that he is gay. As they come together, it is up to Charlie, Amanda's husband, the last of the Texas black cowboys to keep the family together; however, as each moment passes, the desire for revenge and retribution is the only motivation for the family portrait.

Fashion planning director Jerrod Holmes is a glass ceiling breaking, forty-something, African-American living in New York City. Due to his boyfriend’s illness, he is sleeping with various men for indiscriminate sex. On April 8, 2016, twenty-two days before he transfers for one year to Munich, Germany for the fashion company where he is employed. Jerrod wakes up in bed in the Drake Hotel with Reiner Wecker, a white German banker, from Frankfurt, Germany to discover he has strong feelings for him after one night akin to ‘love at first sight'. Jerrod is a man who is yearning for the kind of love that is accessible, yet forbidden, however, it can be negotiated.

Reiner Wecker is a married fifty-something Deutsche bank executive, who is in search of love. He lives with his German wife Ava Böhm Wecker and their two children. They have a non-traditional marriage created out of necessity which he negotiated for his career. When Reiner returns home, he is confronted by Ava that he is in love which places their relationship for the first time in twenty-two years in jeopardy. She tells him he has one year to explore this new-found love nevertheless he must return home after the year has been completed.

Jerrod and Reiner rekindle their relationship in London by chance when they meet in the Savoy Hotel. Jerrod is in London to meet his best friend Frana Ross an African-American, sexually free, non-conformist, relationships through contracts, driven executive with Apollo Investment while Reiner is in London for business having drinks with his friend Jerome Washington a married, closeted, sixty-something, bisexual, African-American vice president who is having an affair with Frana.

Jerrod and Reiner begin to live together during the weekends in Frankfurt as Reiner begins to have doubts about being openly known as a gay man late in life and is presented with a new job opportunity in Hong Kong while Jerrod begins the process of renegotiating his employment contract. As the year is ending, Ava tries to sabotage Reiner's relationship with Jerrod when she accidentally meets Frana one evening in Frankfurt and shares with her that Reiner will never leave her. Frana is expecting Jerrod to return to New York once his year contract is over to be with Marcus, discovers that Jerrod is planning to stay another year. She confronts Jerrod that his feeling of being in love is false and that Reiner is planning to his wife. As they are arguing, they receive a phone call from New York informing them that Marcus is dead.

Jerrod is packing for his trip to New York with the idea that Reiner will be moving to Hong Kong and going back to his wife due to the planned celebration at Reiner’s vice president’s home that night. Reiner informs him that he has been passed over for the position in Hong Kong, and he wants Jerrod to stay even though he may never obtain a divorce.