In the summer of 2019, Professor Pi Suleman is a Black man in Trump's America who is being blackmailed by another professor who will claim he has assaulted her, when in fact the truth is just the opposite.

At the same time he has a burgeoning connection with recently heartbroken and about to be deported Gemma Buckingham, the passing of his famous absentee father and the constant microaggressions of his colleagues to contend with.

Through his relationships with others, Pi comes to understand himself more fully as well as the man he really wants to be.