Junior Massey is smoking nervously in a downtown Chicago back alley, leaning against a truck containing about 50 bottles of whisky. It’s 1921 — early days of Prohibition — and Massey has used his job as a railway porter to smuggle those bottles down from Montreal.
Junior, a Black man, is there to offload that liquor to a white gangster, who quickly tries to lowball him — offering him 50 per cent less than what they had previously agreed to. Both know that if he’s forced to keep the bottles, he’ll either have to smuggle them back into Canada, or be
