In 1960, the Jazz Hour radio show broadcasts Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie behind the Iron Curtain, while decolonization movements are surging across Africa and the civil rights struggle continues in the United States. In Congo, Patrice Lumumba, the leader of the country’s independence movement, becomes its first democratically elected Prime Minister. But corporate and colonial interests, along with United Nations intrigues, conspire to orchestrate his assassination.