The story takes place a few miles from New York in 1968. The reader is introduced to a nine-year-old boy who is dropped off at a theater with his friend in the outskirts of the city. The theater shows horror films that excite the boys. As they entered the theater, they knew this was no ordinary movie theater. A black man served them their drinks and as they sat in the front row, they discovered they were the only white people in the room. Their instincts told them to fly, but at the same time, the theater went crazy when a werewolf attacked its victim on the screen. All the black children stood up screaming. The two white boys had never seen such a reaction. After the cinema, the boy and his friend decided to go to the cinema every Saturday. One day everything changed. Martin Luther King was assassinated and the black part of town went crazy. Buildings were set on fire and police arrested many black men. That Saturday, the boy went to the theater alone because his friend didn't dare. As a frightening scene unfolded, the boy screamed. He was greeted with angry glares from the black children who had remained silent. Now he knew something had changed in the theater. B: The small town in which the boy lives is divided into two parts: the western part and the eastern part. The city is segregated and black people live in the poor east side while white people live in the rich west side. Sure, a few black people work on the West Side as school janitors and housekeepers, but they are almost invisible in the landscape. So the children don't know anything about black people. They have only heard the cruel jokes that adults sometimes tell or heard terrible stories about white children being beaten by black children. White children have illusions about these black people with whom they rarely associate. This is why the main character and his friend Kevin are so terrified when they discover that the Roxy Theater is full of black children. They are certain that they will be laughed at or, even worse, beaten. Fortunately, this doesn't happen. When the horror creature appears, all the black children stand up screaming and clapping..