Sins of Survivors

Synopsis

In a world of extremes, where opinions on racism clash, we find clarity by looking back to 1937 Black Bottom, Detroit. In 1908, brothers Jasper and Ben Carter fled the South's violent racism and thirty years later, they’ve built the Carter Dynasty—owning businesses, earning union wages, and achieving higher education. But more money has always meant more problems, and more power means more to lose.

With the end of Prohibition, Jasper's usual street-smart methods find conflict with college-educated Ben, who, though indebted to Jasper for all his brother has given him, wants to risk their legacy on political causes. The brothers clash and their bond strains as the student challenges the master.

Of course, that’s not all, because family can be drama too. Ben's son Charles, set to inherit the empire, falls for a white prostitute and gets entangled in a politician’s murder at their jazz club, giving Jasper’s daughter Sharon a lane to claim power. Meanwhile, the truth about the Carter brothers’ long lost, light-skinned sister Rosalind threatens to surface.

Damn. Does it ever stop? Jasper’s wife Valerie struggles with alcoholism. Ben’s son Victor is drawn to the Nation of Islam. Jasper's hiding a gambling debt to white mobsters. His son Mark’s journalistic dreams puts the whole family at risk. And now a young punk named Valentino wants to challenge Jasper’s authority?

Amidst tense race relations, political corruption, and poverty, the Carter family battles internal and external threats. In a world of lawlessness, betrayal, and hot jazz, they fight to maintain their power.

This is the Carter family. These are the Sins of Survivors.

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