Holly Bonney

In the series premiere, directed by award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay ("Selma"), Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner "Unforgettable"), a savvy wife and manager of a professional basketball star living an upscale Los Angeles lifestyle returns to her family home – an 800-acre sugarcane farm in the heart of Louisiana – after her father suffers a stroke and she receives alarming news about her husband. There, she reunites with her estranged siblings Nova (Rutina Wesley "True Blood"), a world-wise journalist and activist, and Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe "Awkward"), a formerly incarcerated young father in search of redemption. Together, they must navigate the triumphs and struggles of their complicated lives in order to run an ailing farm in the New South.

The Bordelon siblings place a plaque with their father's name at the Mausoleum in the graveyard and Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) welcomes an unexpected visitor. Charley also celebrates the opening of the Queen Sugar mill, but her triumphant moment is disrupted by machinery issues. The moment inspires Charley and Nova to share their regrets. Charley later asks a reporter to keep the mill issue off the record in exchange for an exclusive on her divorce from Davis (Timon Kyle Durrett). Meanwhile, Nova is shocked to discover that her father hid a second job. Finally, Ralph Angel's run-in with a cashier he once robbed pushes him to confess a huge secret to his family.