A Darker Shade of Black... Sixteen-year-old Matilda Crowley lives on the dark side of being light skinned. When a series of events sends the biracial teenager further down the Tragic Mulatto's road to Hell, she enters the world of the Goth Subculture and begins a journey that will change her perceptions of race, culture, and identity. Will she find light in darkness? Or will she be driven to madness?