Angelina & Adut: and their Multicultural Trifles

Raising children is hard. Raising children in a multicultural society where cultures don't understand one another is harder. But raising an inquisitive and precocious child in a multicultural setting is the hardest of all. This is what Angelina and her friend, Adut, would become to their parents.

Anyone who meets Angelina asks the same question: where does she get such a skewed understanding of diversity issues? Since her best friend, Adut, is South Sudanese, it then becomes easy to assume that Adut's family is the source of Angelina racial dispositions.

As the Michaels try to understand the challenges of parenting in Montreal and the uneasiness of discussing racial issues, Jacqueline loses her memory in a car accident; Norton, Angelina's tutor, dies in a mysterious car accident; Adut is threatened with expulsion from the school after a fight; and Adut's family gets shadowy visits from police officers.

Is Angelina's obsession with diversity and racial issues the cause of the family woes?