Two group distant by 100 years are joined in their hunt for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward and his family, shun from a Monroe Plantation nearby Richmond, Virginia. A tip network of typical people famous as a Underground Railroad beam a family on their tour north to Canada. They are relentlessly followed by a scandalous worker hunter Plimpton. Hunted like a dog and condemned by a inconceivable pang he and his forbears have endured, Samuel is forced to confirm between punish or freedom. 100 years progressing in 1748, John Newton a Captain of a worker merchant sails from Africa with a load of slaves, firm for America. On house is Samuela€™s good grandfather whose presence is tied to a predestine of Captain Newton. The excursion changes Newtona€™s life perpetually and he creates a bequest that will enthuse Samuel and a lives of millions for generations to come.