"Love demands a place in your life, in your bed. Invisibly, it demands a place in your body, it bends the blood vessels, it beats right next to your heart. And when it is no longer there, nothing is whole anymore."

Celeste and Roy are a young, black couple in the American South, Atlanta. Celeste is an artist on the verge of a big breakthrough, Roy is a clerk at a book company - and after a year of marriage, their love still "glows blue". It's as if they're on their way to realizing their American Dream - when a "meteor" unexpectedly hits and shatters their world. Roy is accused and sentenced to twelve years in prison for rape - something he did not commit, and his wife knows for sure that he is innocent.
Celeste, as independent as she is, loses her husband's sure grip and begins to drift, and finds solace in her childhood friend, their wedding witness, André. They keep in touch with Roy through correspondence, but when the convicted man is released after five years and is ready to return to Atlanta to resume their life together with his wife, a painful truth must be revealed for all involved: they must reckon with the past and move forward with some hope. carrier towards the future.

This stirring love story explores the feelings and thoughts of three people with deep compassion, whose fate is sealed by forces greater than themselves.