Samuel Oakman uses the cover of darkness to carry out his mission. It is 1934, and the night is dark. The June 1934 Ku Klux Klan meeting takes place in a room above Kahn's Saloon. Young Samuel is the lone Negro to attend secretly. As he learns the posse's plan for the nights cross burning, he forges his counter-plan. In order to accomplish his mission he must enlist a close friend. Sammy forces his white childhood friend, Gabriel Summers, out of a fitful sleep, and with subtle coercion persuades Gabe to follow him into the East Texas bayous. Gabe follows the death march with terrible...