Movie Story : The Best of Enemies follows Ann Atwater, a fiery civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader, who are unexpectedly thrown together to co-chair a community summit. Set in Durham, North Carolina, during the charged summer of 1971, the two clash fiercely over how to desegregate the city's schools. Their unlikely partnership ends up transforming the town and the lives of both individuals.