The story is set a few miles outside New York City in 1968. The reader is introduced to a nine-year-old boy who is dropped off at the theater with his friend on the outskirts of city. The theater shows horror films that excite kids. When they entered the cinema they knew that it was not a normal cinema. A black man served them drinks and when they sat in the front row they discovered that they were the only white people in the theater. Their instincts told them to fly, but at the same time the theater went crazy as a werewolf attacked its victim on the screen. All the black kids stood up screaming. The two white boys had never seen such a reaction. After the screening of the film the boy and his friend decided to go to this theater every Saturday. One day everything changed. Martin Luther King was assassinated and the black part of the city went crazy. The buildings were burned and the police arrested many of the black men. That Saturday the boy went to the theater alone because his friend didn't dare. When a frightening scene occurred, the boy screamed. He was greeted by angry looks from the black boys who had remained silent. Now he knew that something had changed in the theater. B: The town where the boy lives is divided into two sections: the western section and the eastern section. The city is segregated and blacks live on the poor eastern side while whites live on the wealthy western side. Of course, some blacks work in the western section as janitors and school housekeepers, but they are almost invisible in the landscape. So kids don't know anything about blacks. They only heard the cruel jokes that adults sometimes tell or they heard terrible stories about white children who were beaten by black children. White children have a delusion about these blacks with whom they rarely associate. This is why the main character and his friend Kevin are so terrified when they discover that the Roxy Theater is full of black kids. They are certain that they will be laughed at or, even worse, they will be beaten. Fortunately this doesn't happen. When the horror creature appears, all the black kids stand up screaming and clapping.