Hollywood sprinkles its magic over social revolution in a six-part dramatisation of an outlandish true story, based on Joshuah Bearman's magazine article. Black Panther founder Huey P Newton (Andre Holland) is determined to evade the FBI and escape to Cuba. He enlists the help of famed film executive Bert Schneider (Alessandro Nivola) to pull of an elaborate plan involving a fake movie production. Everything that can go wrong with the hare-brained scheme does and Schneider and his team have to think on their feet to avoid discovery and disaster