The film stars actress Karyn Parsons, as Nia, a biracial woman on a journey to find her true identity.

The movie begins with Nia (Parsons), an upwardly mobile biracial woman working for an advertising firm in New York City.

She hopes to write about her Jewish father and African American mother meeting and living in Greenwich Village in the 1960s.

Though her circle of friends is of all races, she has spent most of her life identifying with the Jewish side of her culture, and is a self-proclaimed yuppie.

She is at times too white for Lewis, who comments that maybe he should find a "real black woman", and leave Nia.