Atlanta 1948. In this city all crime is black and white. On one side of the tracks are the
rich white neighbourhoods on the other Darktown the African-American area guarded by the
city's first black police force of only eight men. These cops are kept near-powerless by the
authorities: they can't arrest white suspects they can't drive a squad car they must operate
out of a dingy basement. When a poor black woman is killed in Darktown having been last seen in
a car with a rich white man no one seems to care except for Boggs and Smith two black cops
from vastly different backgrounds. Pressured from all sides they will risk their jobs the
trust of their community and even their own lives to investigate her death. Their efforts bring
them up against a brutal old-school cop Dunlow who has long run Darktown as his own turf -
but Dunlow's idealistic young partner Rakestraw is a young progressive who may be willing to
make allies across colour lines . . . Soon to be a major TV series from Jamie Foxx and Sony
Pictures Television.
