The Power of Truth. Frank Money has survived the Korean War - the only one of three volunteers from his hometown of Lotus, Georgia. The town is a racist hellhole that he never wants to return to. Yet, elsewhere, Frank experiences the segregation of the 1950s: separate restaurants, hotels, washrooms. Then Frank receives the news that his sister Cee is in danger - he must return to Lotus, to his childhood home and to a secret from his past that he pursues until its bitter revelation.