In the early years of the Civil War Victorine LaGrande returns to New Orleans where her father has arranged for her to marry Andr? Valmont. Victorine sees Andr? arm in arm with another woman, and then meets Dr. Brent Whitman. Will Victorine risk her entire way to life to marry outside the Creole tradition?.
Hannah, a slave from Virginia, has been working in Charleston where she is involved in the Underground Railroad and is in love with Joshua, a free man of color. When her owner sends Hannah back to Virginia, Joshua plans a daring rescue.
