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For almost 40 years Herman Wallace, a Black Panther member falsely convicted of murder, was kept in a 6-by-9-foot Louisiana prison cell—one of the longest-serving prisoners in solitary confinement in the United States. When young artist and activist Jackie Sumell asks him to collaborate on an art project by imagining his ideal house, it is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship, and a powerful journey into the racialized brutality of the American justice system. Shot over five years, this award-winning film follows Jackie and Herman as they plan the house for an exhibition in New York City, bearing witness an extraordinary survivor of injustice, and the transformative power of art.
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