What if on your sister's wedding day you were given to her
- as her slave? When wealthy plantation owner Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa he presents her with a wedding gift: a young slave woman called Sarah. The two girls have grown up together but their lives could not have been more different. Clarissa is white & is used to a life of privilege & ease. Sarah is black & is used to a life of slavery & hard work. Forbidden by law to leave the plantation Sarah longs to be free
- in mind & in body. But when she decides her future lies away from Clarissa she sets in motion a series of events that will have devastating consequences for them both.