When a race riot breaks out at the Sunny Dixie Show, Jake Blount’s place of employment, two young black men are killed. Though Jake attempted to stop the fight from getting out of hand, simmering tensions between the black and white communities had been erupting at the Sunny Dixie for months—now, Jake is worried that the fight will be attributed to his “labor agitation,” and decides to skip town. As he heads out of the mill town where he’s been living for the last year, he laments that all the connections he’s made and all the things he’s experienced are…