One year may not seem like much, but for Cleopatra Harper, that's all it took for the world to come crashing down on her head.
1969 was a year forgotten. All the events before and after seem to take precedent to all the tension that built up and flowed over into 1970. For Cleopatra Harper 1969 was the year she went off into the world for the first time and learned to see with new eyes. Verbally and physically abused by her parents, Cleo was content to live in the sheltered world they had built around her. Things change, however, when her first year of college opens her to up to racial, sexual equality, feminism, and all the damnation that comes with fighting for what you believe in. Open to love and a person she never knew she could become, she finds the strength to put her racism aside and fights to follow her dreams before the world can shut her up forever.