When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch’s operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people’s conflicting agendas collide.

[黑人为王]导演山姆·布里兹·巴扎乌勒将执导华纳音乐剧版[紫色]。该片改编自获托尼奖同名百老汇音乐剧，Marcus Gardley操刀剧本，史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格、奥普拉·温弗瑞、昆西·琼斯担任制作人。原音乐剧改编自艾丽丝·沃克创作同名小说，讲述了从20世纪早期到20世纪中期，美国南部非裔女性西丽的旅程。昆西·琼斯、奥普拉·温弗瑞曾为该音乐舞台剧的制作人，斯皮尔伯格1985年上映作品[紫色]同样为改编自艾丽丝·沃克创作小说。

在这部近距离接触的纪录片中，音乐家乔恩·巴蒂斯特尝试创作一部交响乐。与此同时，他的妻子 — 作家苏蕾卡·卓阿德 — 在接受癌症治疗。