Through the eyes of a young man giving a speech inducting his town's history into the Smithsonian, an African-American man defies societal boundaries to build a schoolhouse and educate his community, while his daughter navigates love and motherhood in Civil War town America. 

SYNOPSIS:

Covert is the true story of and African American family, the Youngs one of the first in American history to be illegally integrated into an all white school system located in Covert, Michigan, the film is a period piece taking place in the 1860's.