A Reckoning in Boston

Kafi Dixon dreams of starting a land cooperative for women of color who have experienced trauma and disenfranchisement in the city of Boston By day she drives a city bus at night she studies the humanities in a tuitionfree course Her classmate Carl Chandler a community elder is the classs intellectual leader White suburban filmmaker James Rutenbeck documents the students engagement with the humanities He looks for transformations but is awakened to the violence racism and gentrification that threaten Kafi and Carls very place in the city Troubled by his failure to bring the film together he enlists the pair as collaborators with a share in the film revenues Five years on despite many obstacles Kafi and Carl arrive at surprising new places in their livesand James does too