If you’re not guilty, what are you afraid of?
McAlester Daily is a professor of ethics who finds himself accidentally entangled with the police. After saving an officer’s life, McAlester is hailed as a hero—but as questions mount and his refusal to conform raises red flags, the system begins to see him as something else.
In a society quick to judge and slow to understand, Not Nobody is an intriguing, funny and powerful portrait of one man trying to be heard on his own terms.
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