Civil disobedience erupts on a small college campus over the planned speech by a conservation and controversial speaker and the dilemma it creates for a young professor and her students.

Is free speech free if it denies others their fundamental rights?

This ­story is a drama about Valerie Martin, a young college professor of African­-American descent, who works at Sedalia College, a small midwestern liberal arts school. When the college’s invitation to a controversial conservative speaker, Jacob Spinner, threatens to divide the campus, Val is pressured into introducing the speaker and serving as the public face of the event.

Val is pitted against her student, Trey Martin, who becomes the voice of the campus in objection to the speaker. When Val discovers that trying to keep everyone happy may cost her more than she is willing to lose, she chooses a side.