Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family & longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans but most of all she longs to be free of the suffocating domestic situation. The tension revolves around Sarah a slave girl who may have been given to Manon as a wedding present from her aunt whose young son Walter is living proof of where Manon's husband's inclinations lie. This private drama is being played out against a brooding atmosphere of slave unrest & bloody uprisings. & if the attacks reach Manon's house no one can be sure which way Sarah will turn.. . Beautifully written PROPERTY is an intricately told tale of both individual stories & of a country in a time of change where ownership is at once everything & nothing & where belonging by contrast is all.