Thirty-somethings Leo, Misha, Ralph and Dawn have been inseparable since college. Making their way together in the big city, they are liberal, open-minded and socially aware. As best friends and lovers, confident in their 'woke-ness', their connection with each other is stronger than anything else - until Leo is assaulted by the police in a racially motivated incident. Shaken to the core, he brings to the group an extreme proposition... White Noise takes an unflinching look at race in the twenty-first century from both a black and white perspective.