Josephine "Fina" Chambers and Ross Buchanan meet in Black Images, a small African American bookshop, as they both reach for a rare copy of a slave woman's memory book. Each refuses to let go until the owner of the store comes up with a solution. Over the next several days, they will read the slave woman's book together in the bookstore. In the process, Ross and Fina will realize the path to their shared future may be linked to something that happened more than a century ago...