The play involves only two nameless characters, designated “White” and “Black”, their respective skin colors. Offstage, before the play begins, Black saves White from throwing himself before a train, the sunset limited. All of the action happens in Black’s spare apartment in urban Ny, in which the characters go (in the behest of Black) after their encounter concerning the platform. Black is definitely an ex-convict as well as an evangelical Christian. White is definitely an atheist along with a professor. They debate this really is of human suffering, the existence of God, and also the propriety of White’s attempted suicide.