Maria Ray, a young women who is nineteen years old, dodges her angered father and tries to fight in she believed was right. Go against the white people, her race, to save the black race. She never had a bad thought about the black people. That is until she met the Whiter's. A band, or a group, of black people that was involved in her mother's death, who was brutally murdered at midnight near a bridge near Maria's home that she visits to have quiet time to herself. Watch as Maria fight her way through the never ending battles and finally find her place in the world. Which is right beside Bernard and his family.