When 24-year-old Kareela discovers she's pregnant, it amplifies her struggle to understand her place as a woman who is half-Black and half-white yet feels neither. Her mother, Evelyn, fled to Canada with her husband and their first-born child, Antony, during the Jamaican Exodus of the 1980s, only to realize they'd come to a place where Black men are viewed with suspicion. Years later, Evelyn's mother-in-law, Violet, moves in, offering young Kareela a link to the Jamaican heritage she has never fully known. In the present, Kareela must come to terms with the mysteries surrounding her family's past and the need to make sense of both her identity and her future.