Where the Suga Still Sweet

In a small southern town, the murder of a young black boy echoes heavily with Runna, a traumatized black male seeking refuge in communicating with his murdered friend through a single, vibrant patch of sugarcane.  Though mute to the external world, Runna is able to embrace his superpower of love and mediumship, but his type of love is not well-received by his Great Aunt Nanny Mae and the brazen Pastor Vern-Mayor, who work to baptize it out of him.  It is only through a passing stranger, Incwadi, that demons of homophobia and the past are confronted as the vast field of sugarcane dies and their lives are forever transformed.