After all the years of wrestling with his identity, born of a mixed African-American, white-black heritage, Barack finally makes the journey to Kenya, the land of his late father. Here he will connect with the other side of his family and, maybe, resolve some of his inner questions of identity.
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Having been embraced by the warmth of his Kenyan family, Barack is now about to face the complicated family politics that surrounded his father - a man who tried to balance traditional cultural expectations, with the realities of a much wider world.
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Barack's half-brother Roy, the head of the family, returns to Nairobi. Now there is only one more maily member for Barack to meet -- his paternal grandmother. For that, the family will all travel out of Nairobi to the ancestral home, a place referred to as 'Home Squared'.
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Barack has arrived at his ancestral home, many hours from Nairobi, and in the warmth of the afternoon sun he sits quietly while his grandmother tells him about his father and his grandfather. All of a sudden, he begins to understand these two almost mythical figures.
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Having learned a great deal about his father, Barack is left to reflect on how much he has in common with a life so conflicted by cultural paradoxes and private uncertainties. But he finally leaves Kenya, returning to America, where a woman called Michelle enters his world.
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