Samuel P. Harvey is a fat old man who loves his garden and birds. He taught at university and left that to help people. He values formal education highly but values life more.
Four young people confront American racism during one of its most lethal periods. All try in their own ways to make their world better. Two of them are murdered and two survive. But the thing is ubiquitous, even eternal. No matter how much good we do, it is always there
