Introduction:

The movie opens on a family breakfast between single father, Abel Turner (Samuel L. Jackson) and his two children. He scolds his pre-adolescent son, Marcus, over his choice of basketball jersey and admonishes his daughter for listening to her music at the table.

As the children leave for school, they see a car approaching, with the new owners of the house next door. There is a moving van and a luxury sedan, and in the car is an African American man with a much younger woman, who pique Abel’s interest. He watches them tour the grounds, and sees a younger Caucasian man seeing to the unloading of items from the moving van. Abel does not acknowledge when this man waves to him. Abel assumes the older man and younger woman are married, and the younger Caucasian man is a mover, but becomes visibly upset when he sees the young man kiss the woman when the older African American man has his back turned. It turns out that the new homeowners are a married biracial couple, Chris and Lisa Mattson (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington), and the older African American man is Lisa’s father (Ron Glass).