Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy in early-nineteenth-century Missouri, embarks on a summer of adventures with his friends, Huck and Becky, after witnessing a shocking crime in the village graveyard.
On the same day in 1830, two boys are born, one the son of a prosperous landowner, the other the son of his mulatto slave girl. To help advance her child, the slave girl arranges to substitute him for the other boy. Then the trouble starts.