A richly woven story, structured as a triptych, Africville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family--Kath Ella, her son, Omar/Etienne, and her grandson Warner--whose lives unfold against the tumultuous events of the twentieth century, from the Great Depression of the 1930s, through the social protests of the 1960s, to the economic upheavals of the 1980s.