In 1956, two white children find out about racial prejudice when a black family with two kids moves into their previously all-white neighborhood in Buffalo.

Watching the black children endure taunts and cruel pranks at the hands of their classmates, the white kids adopt a cavalier attitude. Then, on summer vacation, when they visit their grandmother in the South, the white children find themselves being treated differently because—as Notherners—they don't fit in.

Although they only get a taste of what the black kids have to tolerate, they return home with a new perspective on prejudice. Despite peer pressure from their classmates—and no real guidance from their indifferent parents—they start a tentative friendship with the black children.

That growing relationship, however, is jeopardized when the black children's father is arrested for a crime he didn't commit.

The only way to clear their friends' father, who must now defend himself in court, is for an eyewitness to come forward with the truth—before it's too late.