Tulsa, oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman screams, the man runs out, and the chase to capture and lynch him begins. When joe, a young man trying to be the next hou...Tulsa, oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman screams, the man runs out, and the chase to capture and lynch him begins. When joe, a young man trying to be the next houdini, is accused of rape, he must perform his greatest escape by eluding a bloodthirsty lynch mob.