When 26-year-old writer Dana (Mallori Johnson) matches with Kevin (Micah Stock) on a dating app, the groggy-voiced white waiter who’d served her a few hours earlier at an awkward family dinner, Dana seems cautiously intrigued. He was cute enough, like a big bashful bear. But seconds after she swipes right, she is subject to an alarming yet predictable note about the kinds of rides that Kevin knows how to give. She shuts off her phone and turns in for the night, only to slip into an even more nightmarish realm than online dating.
Now she’s on a Baltimore slave plantation in the early 1800s. A ginger-haired baby is lying on his tummy in his crib and at risk of suffocation. Dana saves him, then comes face to face with a couple of women holding candles who aren’t sure what to make of this Black woman. Is Dana, an aspiring television writer who just moved from Brooklyn to Silver Lake, an enslaved woman? Is she a ghost?
