Against the colorful backdrop of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897, a sheltered young woman forms an unlikely alliance with her prominent family's Black maid whose brother has been accused of murdering a white woman. To prove his innocence, they must navigate the racial divide of the period and their own developing relationship as they descend down a rabbit hole of betrayal, corruption and murder, leading inevitably to the Exposition's most macabre attraction, the Café of Night and Morning.