When Lucas Webster returns to South Georgia in early May of 1961, he hears two words —“he gone” — that change his life. He learns that CJ Jackson, the childhood friend who once saved him from drowning, has disappeared somewhere in Alabama. CJ, one of the country's first African-American Baseball All-Stars, is scouting for more minority players in the Deep South. And his family asks Lucas, a white journalist, to find him before a splinter group of the Ku Klux Klan does.
When Lucas Webster returns to South Georgia in early May of 1961, he hears two words —“he gone” — that change his life. He learns that CJ Jackson, the childhood friend who once saved him from drowning, has disappeared somewhere in Alabama. CJ, one of the country's first African-American Baseball All-Stars, is scouting for more minority players in the Deep South. And his family asks Lucas, a white journalist, to find him before a splinter group of the Ku Klux Klan does.