Tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The author blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with investigative research and archival documents and chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity.