This Bitter Earth
Author(s):
Harrison David Rivers
Company:
Thomas Hopkins, Jana Robbins, Craig Haffner & Sherry Wright, Alex Deacon, Jonathan Kaldor & Kohl Beck in association with John Rogerson and Sarig Peker
At the Million Hoodie March in 2012, Jesse, a young black man, encounters Neil, a young white man who has unwittingly found himself at the front of the crowd with a megaphone in his hand.
Flash forward several weeks, and Jesse and Neil have begun dating. However, as the months pass and Neil works his way further into the world of activism, Jesse never enters it.
Over the years, Jesse and Neil negotiate the complex “firsts” of their relationship against a backdrop of political demonstrations and discord. With history unfolding around them every day, Jesse and Neil must contend with the fact that, no matter their response to social turmoil, they cannot remain untouched by it.