Four residents of an old Tulsa railroad hotel, the Tishomingo, are the guardians of secrets about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The secrets are dangerous to know, life-threatening to make known. The residents include the sheriff at the time of the Massacre, Solomon "Slow Man" Pickett; the deputy sheriff at the time of the Massacre, Sam "Traveling Sam" Key; a storefront preacher, DaVida King; and an embittered community organizer, Brother Sol Reddick. Opposing them is the menacing Tulsa businessman Asher Dodd. Someone will win this dangerous game of wits ... but who? And how?