In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

Smith's solo performance is filmed before a live audience and supplemented with archival footage.

A black man relates the circumstances that led him to join the Black Panthers while still in high school and leave the organization a few years later.