Barlowe Reed, a single, forty-year-old printer who rents a house in the Old Fourth Ward of Atlanta, a short distance from the birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is frustrated when he tries to buy the house only to find that the neighborhood has been "discovered" by yuppies, causing prices to skyrocket, and his feelings become even more confused when he forms a cautious friendship with the young, white couple who moves in next door.
