Intrigue

Karen attempts to displace the new Black family that moved into the neighborhood, but they won't back down without a fight.

Young African American married couple Malik and Imani (Cory Hardrict and Jasmine Burke) have just moved into a predominantly-white suburban neighborhood near Atlanta, Georgia, from where Malik owns and operates a local community center. However, their next-door neighbor happens to be a middle-aged white woman named Karen Drexler (Taryn Manning), a closeted racist who doesn't want to share the area with Malik and Imani. She will stop at absolutely nothing to drive them away, including getting her equally-racist police-officer brother Mike Wind (Roger Dorman) involved. In retaliation, the targeted new neighbors seek assistance from civil-rights attorney Charles Wright (Gregory Alan Williams). But Karen will go to any lengths, from trying to seduce Malik, to installing security cameras in front of her house, to meddling in their daily business by using the fact that she is the head of the local Homeowners Association, to getting Malik and Imani kicked out of a local restaurant, to faking being in danger to get the police involved. Will she succeed? How can she be stopped?

Malik (Cory Hardrict) and Imani (Jasmine Burke) are a young black couple who move into a new house in Harvey Hill, a suburb of Atlanta, next to the home of Harvey Hill Homeowners Association president Karen Drexler (Taryn Manning). Karen is quick to introduce herself to Malik; she refuses to shake his hand, makes a callous comment about not "having any cash" in her home, and installs a security camera in the direction of their house. Although Malik and Imani are perplexed by Karen's behavior, they decide to ignore their concerns and focus on settling in.

Unbeknownst to the both of them, Karen is virulently racist, with Neo-Confederate memorabilia in her home and a reputation for abusing her power as president to target local black residents, often recruiting her equally racist policeman brother, patrolman Mike Wind (Roger Dorman), to help. She soon starts harassing and stalking Malik and Imani, trying to find something she can use to get them out of Harvey Hill. She discovers that Malik smokes marijuana and catches her son watching the couple have sex in front of an open window, but when she brings the issue up at a meeting of the Association's executive board, the other members are disturbed by her bigoted remarks about African Americans and decide not to take any action against Malik or Imani.

After learning that Malik and Imani are holding a housewarming party for their friends, Karen convinces Imani that she wants to make amends and receives an invitation. At the party, she quickly offends everyone present by trying to argue that black Americans are being too "angry" and saying that if they don't like America, they should just "go back". Malik angrily kicks her out, and Karen looses her temper and rages against him and Imani. When Karen refuses to make a sincere apology for her behavior, Malik has a security camera of his own placed in the direction of her house.

The next day, Karen comes across three young men, two of them black, and demands that they present her with identification. They refuse, and she calls her brother, lying that they are threatening her physically. Mike arrests them, but the men are quickly released after video footage surfaces of Karen's phone call. The Association then votes her out as president and rescinds her membership to tamp down the bad publicity.

Growing more deranged and frustrated, Karen gets Mike to pull Malik over as he's driving home from work by revealing his history of marijuana use. Mike finds no marijuana in his car, so he plants a bag of weed in the trunk, resulting in Malik getting arrested and spending the night in jail. He manages to post his own bail and arrives home later that night.

Karen visits Imani the next morning, telling her that she and her husband should leave the neighborhood if they don't want any more trouble. Imani defiantly responds that she and Malik won't be leaving anytime soon. That night, Mike arrives with a search warrant and arrests Malik again, while Karen cuts the power to their house and breaks in with a gun. The siblings threaten Imani at gunpoint before Karen seemingly shoots Imani dead. Mike's police partner Officer Hill rushes in, and a standoff ensues until Mike and Hill shoot each other at close range; Mike is killed while Hill is only slightly wounded. Karen prepares to finish Hill off, but a wounded but still-alive Imani grabs Mike's gun and kills Karen in self-defense.

Malik is released from jail, and he and Imani receive a full apology and compensation from the city of Atlanta for what they went through.