有一个“美国黑人魔法协会”(The American Society of Magical Negroes),致力于让白人生活得更舒适,因为“白人活得不好,之后会有坏事发生在我们黑人身上”。一个年轻男子加入后,开始学习用魔法来执行任务,让白人开心。而有一天他遇上一个女子,因此对自己的工作和整个逻辑产生了怀疑……
Dante has a beautiful relationship with his girlfriend Alice, but he has a bad one with Time: absorbed by the many commitments of his daily life, he always arrives late and has the impression that his life is flowing too quickly. It also happens on the first day of his forty years, when Dante shows up hours late at his birthday party. According to him, the solution seems at hand: if he works hard enough, maybe in a few years he will be able to buy some time.