In My Monticello, a group of Charlottesville neighbors flee white supremacists. Led by Da'Naisha, a young Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, they seek refuge in Jefferson's historic plantation home. In Control Negro, a professor devotes himself to the study of racism and the development of ACMs (average American Caucasian males). Johnson's characters seek out home as a place and an internal state, whether in the form of a Nigerian widower who immigrates to Alexandria; a young mixed-race woman who adopts a new name to escape rural Virginia and her family; or a single mother who seeks salvation through "Buying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse."