Colfax is a Reconstruction-era epic about the architecture of American racial violence and the men it conscripts. In the 1840s, plantation owner Orville Buckhead purchased a fair-skinned young girl named Flossie and her uncle at a public market. Two decades later, her white-passing son, Francis Buckhead, drifts through Reconstruction Louisiana into a paramilitary group whose path leads to the Colfax Massacre of Easter Sunday 1873, hunting the very people he was born from, and doesn't know it.