In this novel, readers will discover the life and the struggle of an icon of America’s Black liberation movement.

She is a universal symbol of Black people, women, and the oppressed the world over, but this young refugee knows nothing about all that. He's just someone Angela Davis meets in Calais, to whom she recounts her heroic life story. She doesn’t know anything about him either, but he will find out all about her in the letters she sends him: her childhood in the violence of racism, her commitment to activism, being the victim of a manhunt when she was accused of a murder she didn't commit, the humiliation of prison, her trial, and the international indignation that made her a leader to all those who rise up in revolt...