1906, Jim Crow, Baltimore
When Jim Eberton, the heir apparent to the Eberton family fortune in Baltimore, finds out that he is part-Negro he asks himself, "Who am I truly?"

Jim is facing imminent bankruptcy if he doesn't get rye whiskey tycoon Craig 'Money Bags' Bigg to sign his John Hancock on the bottom line of the investment contract that very afternoon. But events are conspiring against him.