Antebellum Struggles: A Story of Love, Lust, Pain & Freedom

After toiling in the Colonel's sugar cane fields, Amana’s brought into his mansion as a house servant for the Colonel and his wife, Collette. Collette's suspicions and jealousies arise, but are tempered from the guilt of her own infidelity. The field slave, Tabari, finally escapes but is hunted by two saddle tramps and the law. Throughout it all, the scalawag Doctor disrupts everyone's lives, managing to line his own pockets all the while. Set in and around New Orleans, this deeply moving tale of scandal, sex, and suspense follows the voyages of these very different characters in the 1850s.