The crisscrossing stories of Mark, a white devout Christian who sells his suburban home to go to Baltimore’s internal city, and Nicole, a dark mother driven to leave West Baltimore for the suburbs, chronicle how the region became so deeply segregated and just why these fault lines persist today. Tag and Nicole personify the tremendous disparities in usage of safe housing, educational possibilities, and decent jobs. As these individuals finish off their lives and change areas, journalist Lawrence Lanahan examines what it will require to save our metropolitan areas and communities: Do we put cash into poor, segregated neighborhoods? Or perform we move households out into areas with an increase of chance? This eye-opening account of how a city produces its dark, white, rich, and poor spaces suggests that these problems aren’t intractable but they are destined to persist until each of us-despite living in individual worlds-understands that we have something on the line.