That existential question leads Fontaine and two unlikely allies-prostitute Yo-Yo (Teyonah Parris) and pimp Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx)-to uncovering a vast conspiracy centered on a Black-majority town called The Glen, where people are kept mollified by hypnotic rap music, dumbed down with drug-laced fried chicken and grape juice, and preached into obedience at church.