Synopsis

Thirty-two years had passed since he last breathed, a silent slumber broken by an unforeseen awakening. Martin Luther King Jr. emerged from a coma into a world utterly transformed – the twenty-first century, a landscape scarred by the anxieties of the post-September 11th era. The familiar cadence of his life was jarringly out of sync with the frantic pace and pervasive fear that now defined the nation. His lifelong philosophy of nonviolence, of turning the other cheek, became a dangerous anomaly