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.

: 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

: Fletcher disguises himself to witness her drug use, leading to her arrest and a one-year prison sentence in 1947. The film centers on the U

The narrative explores the "central emotional battles" Holiday faced throughout her career: The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021) The United States vs. Billie Holiday

, chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, views the song as politically threatening and "un-American".