Tawawa House is situated in Ohio, an idyllic retreat that is particularly nice in the summer when the Southern humidity is too much to bear. It suits the needs of the Southern white men who vacation there every summer with their black, enslaved mistresses. Lizzie, Reenie, and Sweet are regulars at Tawawa House. They don't bother too much with questions of freedom, though the resort is situated in free territory-but when truth-telling Mawu comes to the resort and starts talking of running away, things change.