: Over time, Fletcher becomes conflicted and begins a tumultuous affair with Holiday, eventually regretting his role in her persecution. Themes of Resilience and Tragedy
: Unable to legally stop her from singing, the government uses Holiday’s struggles with heroin addiction as a pretext to arrest and discredit her. The Undercover Operation The United States vs. Billie Holiday
The film centers on the U.S. government's obsession with Holiday’s performance of Strange Fruit , a powerful protest song against the lynching of Black Americans in the South. : Over time, Fletcher becomes conflicted and begins
The government launches a sting operation led by a Black federal agent, . : Over time
, chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, views the song as politically threatening and "un-American".