I Passed for White

Angelena Bernice Lee, a biracial woman who is often mistaken for being white, faces rejection from both white and Black people after her true heritage is discovered. Despite her grandmother's advice to be honest, Bernice assumes a new identity, Lila Brownell, and moves to New York. She meets Rick Leyton, a man from a prominent white family, and they get engaged. As Lila builds a life with Rick, she confides only in her friend Sally Roberts, and constructs a fragile facade of lies and half-truths that threatens to collapse at any moment.