Junior Massey is smoking cigarettes nervously in a downtown Chicago back alley, leaning towards a truck that contains about 50 bottles of whisky. It’s 1921 — early times of Prohibition — and Massey has utilized his work as a railway porter to smuggle those bottles down from Montreal.
Junior, a Black person, is there to offload that liquor to a white gangster, who immediately tries to lowball him — providing him 50 for each cent considerably less than what they had formerly agreed to. Both equally know that if he is pressured to retain the bottles, he’ll either have to
