This movie opens with a montage featuring a selection of African-Americans getting ready to leave their homes for the day. Radio and television audio feeds on the soundtrack place the time as Election Day, 2012. One hears President Obama's voice, and Mitt Romney's. The ordinary images connote "ordinary people" while the urgently edited soundbites say "extraordinary times," maybe. As a few interviewees soon make clear, it's also the place that's important: Maryland. It was in this state, one-third of whose residents are African-American, that a state referendum on same-sex marriage was proposed and, on that election day, passed.
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