Keene Davenport has called for a student walkout to protest his schools annual Slave Day fundraiser, but its not exactly working. Shawn Greeley, the first African American student council president of Robert E. Lee High, continues to preside over the auctioning of student reps to serve as book-toters, chauffeurs, and lunch-fetchers for the day. So Keene chooses an alternative path of civil disobedience: Assuming that a day of degradation ought to open Shawns eyes, Keene decides to buy Shawn to be his slave, no matter what the costand launches a series of life-changing events in the process.