A Story They Couldn’t Erase

The Civil war ends in a truce. America divides into six countries.

What We Are explores a fractured America through the eyes of two girls: Elizabeth, fleeing a slave-holding nation after The Civil War ends in a truce in 1865, and Mona, drifting through a present-day America that has developed radical, cultural-erasing policies in the name of healing.

Linked by loss and the question of when to resist, their stories echo across time in a world where silence has always served the powerful.