"I would knife a hundred men for you" I was scared... because I knew she was telling the truth.

The year is 1925, The roaring twenties. The music is jumpin' , the ladies are flappin', and racism is more alive then ever. Mr. Pierre Coats, a handsome white man, moves to New York, New York City in order to extend his Cigar Company. Ana Mae, is a young and beautiful African american women finally gets her first job as a maid. Shes young , vibrant, and curious. But when she meets her boss, her colorful world goes from glitz and glam to black and white. Literally.

Short - 'Now, the first thing you have to understand about me, is that I know exactly where my place is in the world, I just don't know what that world looks like, how it turns, or even if it turns at all.' Brighton Pier, 1923 James Griffin, seventeen, is a boy 'tainted'. After the war, his world shattered into a million shards, each one carved with their own story, each one as real to him as the next. The earth sang a different tune, each sound as passionate and tormented, each life as unfamiliar, every voice a liar. But this story is not about him, but Walter Smith of London. A well-educated man with a simple yet intellectually brilliant mind. In a challenging and unnamable love, Walter is the only man that has the ability to piece together James' thoughts, and thus connect the lost shards of his world.