Wiletta Mayer arrives to begin rehearsal for the play Chaos in Belleville, a new and supposedly progressive Broadway show about a lynching that takes place in a predominately white southern town. She is a veteran of Broadway who dreams of playing roles of substance, but instead has spent her career playing stereotypical Black characters. As rehearsals with the director and other actors progress, the experience turns out to be anything but progressive, and, for Wiletta, it again only shows the imbalance, egos, and discrimination of power in the 1950s theatre industry.
