Martin Bernal, a Cornell professor of government, spends his retirement years arguing that classical Greece owes its religion, mythology, and even its alphabet to Egypt and Phoenicia, not to a purebred European lineage. The film lays out his case from his book Black Athena: nineteenth-century classicists, he argues, built an "Aryan model" of Greek origins that deliberately erased African and Near Eastern influence to keep Western civilization racially pure on paper. Bernal walks through the linguistic and archaeological evidence he uses to support the older, discarded idea that Egyptians and Phoenicians colonized and shaped early Greece. Against him stand classical scholars who accuse Bernal of the same selective, ideologically driven reading he attacks in his predecessors, insisting cultural borrowing cannot explain what Greece achieved on its own. Directors Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson let both sides argue their evidence rather than settling the dispute, framing it as part of a wider fight over multiculturalism and Afrocentric curricula on college campuses. The debate stays open by the end; the historiography does not.