Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father
's life, Stepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one
he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D.C.
Sepha spends his days in a sort of limbo: quietly running his grocery store int
o the ground, revisiting the Russian classics, and toasting the old days with hi
s friends Kenneth and Joseph, themselves emigrants from Africa. But when a white
woman named Judith moves next door with her only daughter, Naomi, Sepha's life
seems on the verge of change...
