Misplaced

Theodore Davis Scott is the product of a white mother and a black father, in the year 1902. He is raised for thirteen years, by Jean and Spike Williams who found him lying on the train tracks in the dead of winter, when he was not even a month old. For those thirteen years he was a happy child, and would remain so until that fateful day that would change his life forever. While shining a man's shoes, one Saturday morning, Spike casually walks up, and nonchalantly says to him. "Hey boy, you see that white woman standing over there on that corner? Well, she's your mama!" In the beginning, Theo doesn't believe what he has heard. He ponders on it for a few days and certain things begin to weigh heavily on his mind. He questions his parents and they reluctantly tell him the story of how they came to have him as a son. This news is devastating and confusing to Theo. He forces himself to forget what he has been told, in order to keep his sanity. When he becomes an adult, he leaves his parents and the place he was born to try and locate the woman who carried him for nine months, birthed him into the world, and laid him on the rail-road tracks to be run over by a train! When he finally finds, and confronts her, she denies that he ever existed. Her response takes him to a place in his heart that he wishes he had never gone. As fate would have it, he ironically repays her for all of the pain and hurt she has caused him. In the end, he finds that he lived his entire life, profoundly affected by the actions of this woman who was supposed to have been his mother. He simply felt, "Misplaced."