Two men separated from a century are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, his family and Samuel Woodward, escape by the Monroe Plantation. A network of ordinary people known that the household on their travel north to Canada. The slave hunter Plimpton relentlessly pursues them. Haunted by the unthinkable anguish he and his forbears have suffered and hunted like your dog, Samuel has been forced to decide between liberty or revenge. A century earlier with a cargo of slaves, John Newton that the Captain of a slave trader sails from Africa in 1748. Aboard is. The voyage affects Newton's lifetime and he creates a legacy that may inspire the lives of countless generations as well as Samuel ahead.