In 1943 a correspondence between a poet and his young muse, is explored. Countee, a Harlem poet whose popularity has faded, now searches for a place he can exist truthfully in a time where everything feels cut short. Edward, a young actor, contemplates his fears of the future when he finds himself drafted into WWII. The story begins at night in the home studio of Countee’s older friend Carl, a critic, amature photographer, and author of the infamous 1926 novel ‘Nigger Heaven’. Here in his lavish apartment the two former are provided with escapism, however artificial. A photograph is taken suddenly connecting the past to the immediacy of the present, and calling into question how we communicate love, when we don’t, and what may get lost in translation as we search for a divine form of bond between men.