"There is nothing new in the world, except the history we don't know …" Harry Truman Joshua and Salinda meet in the South of 1857 and are immediately transfixed with each other. They can only be together at random times and under restricted conditions- because the two of them are slaves. The relative peace of the plantation is shattered when the son of the plantation owner comes home, and is also taken with Salinda. Now tensions rise and for slaves and slave masters things will never be the same.