What happens when the loss of your sight ignites a war between your two best friends? Such is the case for 35-year-old, psychologist, Sahel Ohin, involving her two friends from childhood, Titus Denning and Carl Pierson. That she marries Titus enrages the flames of a battle brewing between him and Carl. A treacherous surgical procedure, at its most successful, could restore Sahel's sight and her independence. At its worst she could die during the operation or be rendered permanently comatose. Sahel's husband, Titus, a cardiac surgeon, and fearful of losing her urges Sahel to forgo the...

December 28th, 1967. America has taken a respite from the heated protests and firebombing that engulfed the nation the previous summer. Martin Luther King, Jr. has begun laying out plans for his Poor People's Campaign. Florina Gavin Austin, two days married, has moved across state to Poinsettia, North Carolina where she will begin a new life as Mrs. Redmond Austin. On approach to the house where she and her husband will live, Florina spies a woman sitting on the steps and smoking a cigarette. "You must be Redmond's new wife," the woman says. "All of Poinsettia's been talking about you."...