'The Doll” is set in the early 1900s and tells the story of Tom Taylor, the black proprietor of the Wyandot Hotel barbershop. Taylor’s humanity, his dignity, and his responsibility to family and community are severely challenged when it becomes apparent that he has an opportunity to avenge an injustice that was inflicted on his father decades earlier. Viewers see that human emotions cross racial lines, that anger and revenge are natural emotions, and controlling them is fundamental to a civil society. The screenplay is based on a short story by Charles W. Chesnutt. dir. by Dante James