A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

Coleman Silk har under hela sitt liv varit en mästare på bedrägerier och lögner. Under collegetiden blev Colemans första stora kärlek, Steena, förkrossad av den fruktansvärda hemlighet han bar på. Nu, över 50 år senare, är han en aktad litteraturprofessor och dekanus i en liten stad i New England som plötsligt får sin karriär krossad av falska anklagelser. När han då inleder en skandalös kärleksaffär med en ung, själsligt ärrad städerska upptäcker Coleman ett erotiskt nyuppvaknande som för honom tillbaka till det förflutna. Men med hans nya passion kommer inte bara hoten från älskarinnans exman, utan även risken att den livslögn han hållit dold för hela sin omgivning i över 50 år avslöjas med förödande konsekvenser som följd...

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.

En ljushyad, svart flicka bor på Manhattan med sina två bröder. En vit man blir tillsammans med henne, men lämnar henne när han inser att hon är svart.

I 1920-talets New York får en svart kvinna tillvaron vänd upp och ner när hon återknyter bekantskapen med en barndomsvän som ses som vit.

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.

Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.

A light-skinned African-American family are "passing" in an all-white New England town. When the truth comes out, the more prejudiced neighbors demand their expulsion from the community.

After his daughter is killed by the KKK, a black man seeks revenge by passing as white and becoming a Klansman.

After an interaction with a friend from the mosque he attended as a young boy, Yasine begins to question his Moroccan identity, faith, and life without his father.

A young woman falls in love and marries, but withholds from her husband information about her family.