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At [[Lake Lanier]] at night, a white man ([[Tobias Segal]]) and a black man (Tyrell Munn) are out on the water in a small boat, fishing near a bridge. The white man tells a story about the town beneath them, a black town, that was flooded to make the lake. In the process, he says, people who refused to leave drowned, and the lake is now haunted. He says these black people were so prosperous and successful that they were "almost white", opening a discussion of what constitutes "[[Whiteness theory|whiteness]]", in which he proclaims that black and white people are both cursed. As the scene turns darker, the white man turns around to reveal his eyes missing and the black man is grabbed by the hands of the souls of the black people in the lake.
The scene then turns to a classroom, and the dream of an African American boy named Loquareeous (Christopher Farrar), who dozed off at his desk. When the teacher announces that they will be taking a field trip to see the new ''[[Black Panther: Wakanda Forever|Black Panther]]'' movie, Loquareeous dances with joy, cheered on by his classmates. But the teacher disapproves, and he gets into trouble when he continues to dance despite her ordering him to stop. Loquareeous' mother and grandfather meet with the principal and the counselor. While his mother insists that her child be put in detention, the counselor suggests that Loquareeous is acting out because the schoolwork is too challenging for him, and that he belongs in special ed, with the [[Learning disability|mentally disabled]] children. The counselor then runs into his mother in the hall, giving Loquareeous an intense warning about how white people can harm and kill him if he doesn't take their rules seriously. His grandfather lightly slaps him three times, as well. The white counselor doesn't understand any of this and only registers it as abuse. She reports the events to child protective services, who show up at Loquareeous' house along with the police. His mother mistakenly believes Loquareeous has called the police on his family. Hurt, and not realizing what has actually happened, she
Loquareeous is put into a foster home, where a married, white lesbian couple consisting of Amber ([[Laura Dreyfuss]]) and Gayle (Jamie Neumann) are his new parents. They have three adopted black children: Lanre, Yves and Fatima, who are totally silent, sickly and thin, and only communicate with him with their eyes and facial expressions. Loquareeous begins noticing a strange behavior with Amber and Gayle, who seem to force the kids into adopting their [[Alternative lifestyle|alternative lifestyle]] and is further frustrated when they nickname him "Larry" because of his long, "difficult" name. During dinner, Loquareeous complains that the sparse and undercooked food is "nasty". Gayle has a violent outburst and breaks the phone when a caller interrupts dinner.
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