Them tells the compelling story of Barlowe a single forty-something African American who rents a ramshackle house on Randolph Street just a stone's throw from the historic birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. When Sean and Sandy Gilmore, a young white couple, move in next door, Barlowe and Sandy develop a reluctant, complex friendship based on conversations over the backyard fence. But fear and suspicion build and clashes ensue as more new whites move in, changing the familiar landscape.