In 1751 Scotland, young Davie Balfour seeks out his uncle after his parents' death only to find that his uncle has already murdered to keep the family estate to himself and he has plans for Davie as well.
Sold into slavery by his uncle, Davie Balfour is pressed into service as cabin boy to the drunken captain who kidnapped him and sees no way out of his predicament until Alan Breck Stewart, an exiled Jacobite, comes aboard.
