Toussaint Moore is a college-educated, decorated war veteran. But because he’s also a Black man, his employment options are limited. So, he ekes out a living as a private eye serving Black clients in and around Harlem where he lives. When he’s hired by producers of a television reality show called “You—Detective!” to keep tabs on the whereabouts of an accused child molester until the episode airs, the gig goes quickly south; Touie finds the man murdered, and himself framed for the deed. He flees to the small Ohio town where the deceased was wanted for his crime, thinking the key to the murder may lie there. As Virgil Tibbs would experience years later in John Ball’s IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, Touie encounters a whole new level of resistance and racism as a Black man asking questions in a small-minded, predominantly white town.