a best-selling novel by Charmaine Wilkerson, “Black Cake” is a multigenerational saga that tells the sprawling tale of a family filled with secrets.
The story begins in the West Indies in the 1960s. Covey (Mia Isaac), a 17-year-runaway bride who is half-Jamaican and half-Chinese, sprints on a beach at night.
In the present day, a gray-haired woman, Eleanor Bennett (Chipo Chung), sits contemplating her life on a beach in California.
After Eleanor dies, her estranged adult children — ocean scientist Byron (Ashley Thomas) and artist Benny (Adrienne Warren) — go to attorney Charles Mitch (Glynn Turman) to go over their mother’s estate.
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