It's May 1968, just after the murder of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and a month before the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.  Five Black kitchen workers in a segregated lunch counter are forced to engage in painful self examination brought about by the senseless death of a young boy.  Through passionate conversations, these women face the realities of life on the cusp of change.  Jammed in a hot, airless room they must battle prejudice, poverty, ignorance and each other as they search for inspiration.