This is a story about love crossing the barriers of tradition, culture and ethnicity to be rejected, humiliated and crucified because of the love of a Black man to an Indian woman.  

 The room is dark and the sounds of two people are in hot pursuit.  You can hear and sense the sultry bits and pieces of a woman's voice as she begins to reach that ultimate sexual climax, but suddenly her voice changes to sheer terror as she screams in a high pitch tone.  The voice dies out, there's pure silence suddenly a loud cry of a trilling tongue.  The scene fades to black.

  It's the late 70's and a woman is sitting in front of an old dresser with mirror in a sheer negligee and brushing her hair with a silver antique brush. Her hair is long and beautiful.  There's a hand with a birthmark placed on the shoulder as she looks up and smile.  The hand moves to the top of her head grabs a chuck of her hair from the forehead and with an axe scalps her and savagely sticks it to the mirror in one quick flash.  Monique wakes up startled.   

 Split Ends is centered on a troubled Black Chicago detective named Sam Mitchell.  Sam is called back East to investigate the murders of Black hairdressers who are being scalped with their remains stuck to their salon’s mirror.  As a rookie in the late 70's, Sam was at the crime scene in Harlem where a Native American woman was severely scalped and her baby missing. 

 The case was never solved!