A STORY SO DANGEROUS, IT COMES WITH A WARNING
It's the hottest day of the year, and Tom Mayland is at the end of his rope. He has lost his wife in a mugging gone bad, the bank is about to take his house, and his teenage son has turned against him. At the middle school where he teaches history, Tom gives an honest but politically incorrect answer to a student's question and is fired from his job. On edge and with nothing left to lose, Tom hears a voice on the radio - the charismatic activist Reggie Miles fumes about White privilege. Tom loses it. He drives to the radio station, grabs his gun from the glove compartment, and barges into the broadcast booth to confront Reggie. The hostage crisis escalates, and as the two firebrands argue on the air and give voice to taboo opinions and facts, the city around them erupts into violence and chaos, becoming the epicenter of a revolution.